Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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