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Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. — John French Sloan

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that? — Kurt Vonnegut

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train. — John French Sloan

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it. — John French Sloan

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. — John French Sloan

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. — John French Sloan

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed. — Arsene Wenger

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life. — John French Sloan

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture. — John French Sloan

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John Sloan

There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet. — Ross Wetzsteon

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. — John French Sloan

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

How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I'm certain I love? — Suzanne Collins

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it. — John French Sloan

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it. — Thomas A. Edison

The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different. — Anna Quindlen

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. — John Sloan

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven. — John French Sloan

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. — John French Sloan

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan

It was my first visit to the scene of the crime
a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Drawing and composition are the same thing. — John French Sloan

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. — John French Sloan

Find your own technique. — John French Sloan

Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved. — John Sloan

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. — John French Sloan

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why. — Stephen Grosz