Carroll, Allen

This page is dedicated Allen Carroll who is a co member and contributor to a Facebook group called Expressionist Photography

His interest and passion to connect his artistry with observations by sages of the past, is a perfect match for this site.

Thank you Allen!

Expressionist page – Allen Carroll

There is peace even in the storm.
Vincent van Gogh
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
P.G. Wodehouse
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Cousteau
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The painter of the future is a colourist such as has not existed before.
Van Gogh
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There is a sun within every person.
Rumi
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Sane is boring.
R. A. Salvatore
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I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way….things I had no words for.
Georgia O’Keeffe

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Happy Father’s Day
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
Claude Monet
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Don’t define your world in black and white because there is so much hiding amongst the greys.
Unknown
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Choose only one master – Nature.
Rembrandt
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Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
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Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,–
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
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The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
Robert Frank
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Which of my photographs is my favorite?
The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham
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When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest woods the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow, of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo
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There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
Claude Debussy
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Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
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I wouldn’t mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
Henri Matisse
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir
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I put my heart and soul into my work
and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent van Gogh
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Purer colors have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
Henri Matisse
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Critic asks: ‘And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting? ‘The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Claude Monet
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