Walter J. Phillips Quotes

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• Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
• 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…
• Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so…
• Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
• The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...
• In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly…
• The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding…
• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open,…
• The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
• The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he…
• The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
• The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
• Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
• It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or…
• In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.
• It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even…
• A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may…
• 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 conforms…
• Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

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