John French Sloan Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

  John French Sloan

  Energy, Vitality, Painting

• 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 French Sloan

  Mean, Thinking, Color

• Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

  John French Sloan

  Fear, Atmosphere, Nine

• Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Color, Drawing

• 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 French Sloan

  Rocks, House, Tree

• There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Texture, Chance

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