"A real artist is constantly looking for, searching out, the places in a picture which are not brilliantly colored. The neutral colors - Tarbell calls them the dirty colors. Without them, the rest lose their effect. A picture [with] all bright colors loses the effect it would have if there were in it these contrasting bits of dull color. They are not noticeable in the picture, but they are what makes for its effectiveness - something that people not painters think is made in some magical way."
Frank Benson
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