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

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John French Sloan

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

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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.

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Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

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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.

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

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Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

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I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

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A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

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