George L. Carlson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là ", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
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I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
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As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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