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Painter Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
- 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…
- 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…
- The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
- 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…
- 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…
- Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
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