"If you're going to paint from photos, make……" — John F. Carlson
"If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years."
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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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A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest…
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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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