John F. Carlson Quote

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.


Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting (ed. Courier Corporation, 2013) - ISBN: 9780486317458


You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living...

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living...

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living...

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living...