"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."

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

John F. Carlson

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“Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.”
“By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.”

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“I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.”
“Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”
“I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.”
“I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sexâ€”with the racial questions that rest on itâ€”stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”
“I humbly apologise for reality Television.”
“It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”

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