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From Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
- 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…
- Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result…
- Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of…
- A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement…
- Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
- 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…
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