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Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

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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…
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence…
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily…
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -…
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
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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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
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