Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language.… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end -… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share
