The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
John French SloanEvery 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.
John French SloanA good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.
John French Sloan