"Too much reality in a picture is always……" — John F. Carlson
"Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts."
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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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More Disappointment Quotes
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one of 1,191 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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