"A picture is a graphic expression of a pictorial idea. Not a graphic representation of various objects, brought together. Just as a man is not made up of legs, arms, eyes, etc., ... although he has those things. Let us make a statement of a mood that flows from one end of the canvas to the other! And the various parts are there to complete the statement of that mood. For instance, take the subject of a man in despair, we are told he went over the hill on his way home. Let the sky be lowering, weeping in sympathy, the hill be bleak and barren, and shrubbery and trees bending with the same grief. On the other hand, when you're painting a bride, you think of June, laughter, bloom, sunshine and joy - those are moods. Let's look at the idea we have of a boy's room. Isn't hung with pennants, girls' pictures, filled with gimcracks, ukeleles and mechanical bits. The spirit of a boy's room is not our own. We only think of the algebra and history and the work we had there. And that would take romance out of anything. It's sort of weaving together of our impressions and imaginings."
Harvey Dunn
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