"The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar……" — Walter J. Phillips

"The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius."

— Walter J. Phillips

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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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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,… — Joseph Addison
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. — Graydon Carter
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a… — B.F. Skinner
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely… — P.G. Wodehouse
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. — Bill Russell
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we… — Henry David Thoreau
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. — Warren G. Harding
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their… — Charles Darwin

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