George L. Carlson quotes
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“Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.”
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“Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.”
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“Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.”
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“If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.”
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“Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.”
-- George L. Carlson
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press
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