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I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.

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John F. Carlson

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.

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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.

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

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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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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

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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.

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