"The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters……" — 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 with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day."
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Walter J. Phillips
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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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