"A work of art in paint should be……" — John F. Carlson
"A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration."
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24 Quotes by John F. Carlson
John F. Carlson has 24 quotes on this site.
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A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it…
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The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could…
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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…
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We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful…
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The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a…
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Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually…
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It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from…
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This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the…
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If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original…
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The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it…
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To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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