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John Sloan - From the Art category:
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Art category:
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows... Color is surface skin that fits over the form. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Colour category:
Who ever heard of a musician who was passionately fond of B flat? Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Composition category:
Drawing and composition are the same thing. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Danger category:
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Design category:
Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Drawing category:
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Drawing category:
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Drawing category:
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Drawing category:
Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Fear category:
Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Form category:
Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Generosity category:
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Imitation category:
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Importance category:
When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Impressionism category:
In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Interest category:
Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Light category:
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Light category:
I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Lines category:
Line is the most powerful device of drawing. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Masters category:
Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Masters category:
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Materials category:
Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Mediums category:
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Memory category:
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Mistakes category:
Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Nature category:
Nature is what you see plus what you think about it. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Order category:
The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Originality category:
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Originality category:
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Painting category:
Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Portraiture category:
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Subject category:
When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Subject category:
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Technique category:
Find your own technique. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Technique category:
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Texture category:
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Tones category:
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Tradition category:
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it. (John Sloan)
John Sloan - From the Tradition category:
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently. (John Sloan)
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