John Sloan > Quotes

“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”
― John Sloan, John Sloan on Drawing and Painting

“What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.”
― john sloan, Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio

“Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.”
― John Sloan, Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio

“Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved.”
― John Sloan, Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio