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,…

- George L. Carlson

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

- George L. Carlson

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 worl…

- George L. Carlson

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

- George L. Carlson

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.

- George L. Carlson