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…

- John French Sloan

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

- John French Sloan

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…

- John French Sloan

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

- John French Sloan

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

- John French Sloan

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 …

- John French Sloan

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, mo…

- John French Sloan

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

- John French Sloan

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

- John French Sloan