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“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.”

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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“The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!”

Soul Eye Form Surface Reactions Appeals Contemplation Colour Subtle Transition Intangible Sensuous

Author:John F. Carlson

“Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.”

Ifs Art Hands Happiness Materials Assured

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.”

Art Artist Interest Ability Students Determine Differentiate Art Students

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.”

Ifs Memories Materials Originals Train Impression

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.”

Should Principles Support Fundamentals Digging

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.”

Artist Peace Shadow Dancing Forests Asylums

Author:John F. Carlson

“If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.”

Ifs Years Ten Photography Paint

Author:John F. Carlson

“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.”

Long Facts Rooms Doors Tree Property Instance Curious Beginners Overloaded

Author:John F. Carlson

“Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.”

Soul Hard Facts Reality Too Much Disappointment Suggestions Imaginative

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting