Walter J. Phillips Quotes About Composition

Quotes about: Composition

• A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Taken, Landscape Painting, Lines

• There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Artist, Design

• In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Perfection, May, Painting

• The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Law, Doe

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