If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. — John F. Carlson Copy Share
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. — John F. Carlson Copy Share
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression… — John F. Carlson Copy Share
