"It is not in the nature of lenses……" — Walter J. Phillips
"It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement."
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80 Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
Walter J. Phillips has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
- Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad…
- Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism.…
- Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
- Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
- The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...
- In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must…
- The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists…
- When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he…
- The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
- The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his…
- The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
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