All Walter J. Phillips Quotes
- Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success. Cleanliness
- It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently… Apprehend
- Be content with nothing less than perfection. Content
- Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. Aerial
- Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually… Accept
- It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. Belittlement
- Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and… Becomes
- The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… All
- Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He… Advance
- Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If… Aesthetic
- Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. Affluence
- Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… Aethereal
- Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. Artist
- The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. Affords
- Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. Inspirational
- Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of… Adventuring
- However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… Clouds
- The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture… All
- The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but… All
- Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will… Achieve
- 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 that… Beholder
- Subject has the variety of life. Inspirational
- For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. Another Artist
- When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of… Becomes
- The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A… Considered