"However exquisite the contours or the colours of……" — Walter J. Phillips
"However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan."
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80 Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
Walter J. Phillips has 80 quotes on this site.
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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
— Erykah Badu
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
— Georges Bernanos
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
— Richard Brautigan
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