The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. — 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 him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and… — 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
