However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if… — 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 Image
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. — 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 design that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
