John French Sloan Quotes

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

Drawing is the root of everything.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I like creating images.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I love very much to draw animals.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.