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Artist Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
- 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…
- 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…
- Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his…
- The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,…
- The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is…
- Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an…
- It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract…
- Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the…
- A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in…
- Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
- 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…
- For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu