"Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we……" — Walter J. Phillips
"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 merely from a similarity of method."
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80 Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad…
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism.…
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
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Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
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The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...
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In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must…
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The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists…
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When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he…
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The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
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The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his…
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The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
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More Annoyance Quotes
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into…
— Robin Winks
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material…
— George Washington
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the…
— Kate Elliott
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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private…
— Hilaire Belloc
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So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up…
— Werner Erhard
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Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
— C. D. Darlington
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