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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.”

Quote by John F. Carlson

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John F. Carlson

John F. Carlson was an influential American painter known for his landscapes, particularly his detailed depictions of the natural scenery in North America. more

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“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.”

Ifs Feelings Trust Theory Credit Colour Infallible

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“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.”

Ifs Understanding Growth Realizing Liberty Tree Movement Waste Conscious Paint Unnecessary Living Things

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.”

Stills Values Painting Stronger Painter Subtle

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“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Wonder Movement Elements Paint Clouds Landscape Fascinating Free Movement

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.”

May Art Offers Harmony Profound Definitions Philosopher Painter Phrases Elegant

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“I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.”

Ifs World Problem Wonder Bases Harmony Solve

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“You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.”

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