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John F. Carlson has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a…
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The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…
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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…
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We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence…
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A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily…
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The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -…
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Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…
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It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…
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This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…
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If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
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The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require…
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I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
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Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this…
— Carl Jung
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We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this…
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I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to…
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It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the…
— John F. Carlson
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
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It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very…
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It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him…
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