Academy Quote by Walter J. Phillips

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought…

— Walter J. Phillips

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

— Walter J. Phillips

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…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset,…

— Walter J. Phillips

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between…

— Walter J. Phillips

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

— Walter J. Phillips

Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of…

— Walter J. Phillips

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter…

— Walter J. Phillips

Tradition is a prop for social security.

— Walter J. Phillips

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…

— Walter J. Phillips

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

— Walter J. Phillips