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• We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

  John F. Carlson

  Design, Needs, Artistic

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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

  John F. Carlson

  Peace, Artist, Dancing

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• Demasiada realidad en una imagen es siempre una decepción para el alma imaginativa. Nos gustan las sugerencias y no los hechos concretos.

  John F. Carlson

  Disappointment, Reality, Soul

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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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.

  John F. Carlson

  Tree, Understanding, Growth

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Bidding, Repeats

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  John F. Carlson

  Stronger, Painting, Subtle

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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!

  John F. Carlson

  Eye, Soul, Transition

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

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Students, Ability

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Un buen color significa realmente buen gusto; y un color "potente" significa una reserva, para dar a un clímax toda su fuerza, y no "rojo, blanco y azul por todas partes".

  John F. Carlson

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• 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.

  John F. Carlson

  Happiness, Art, Hands

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• Las nubes son fascinantes de pintar porque son el único elemento de un paisaje que posee movimiento libre.

  John F. Carlson

  Clouds, Elements, Movement

  John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Un cuadro es una obra de arte, no porque sea "moderno", ni porque sea "antiguo", sino porque es una expresión sincera del sentimiento humano.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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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.

  John F. Carlson

  Strength, Voice, Weakness

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

  John F. Carlson

  Photography, Years, Paint

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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.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Mean, Imagination

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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

  John F. Carlson

  Memories, Impression, Materials

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Emotion, Wonderful

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• No tengas miedo de que demasiado trabajo sobre la composición vaya a matar la espontaneidad. Los que absorben y digieren sus experiencias son, de repente, montañas de fuerza y pueden producir cuadros con un comienzo y un final espontáneos.

  John F. Carlson

  Mountain, Too Much, Spontaneity

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  John F. Carlson

  Doors, Long, Tree

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• 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.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Men, Color

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Confía enteramente en tus sentimientos sobre el color, y entonces, aunque no llegues a una teoría infalible del color, al menos tendrás el mérito de tener tu propio sentido del color.

  John F. Carlson

  Trust, Feelings, Credit

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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.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Art, Illustration

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• 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.

  John F. Carlson

  Support, Principles, Digging

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Anxiety, Canvas

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