Walter J. Phillips Quotes

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• A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.

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  Moving, Heart, Emotional

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• Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

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  Water, Elements, Tranquility

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• 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.

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  Taken, Landscape Painting, Lines

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• Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

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  Style, Degrees, Development

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• Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

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  Artist, Criticism, Sincere

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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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  Beauty, Understanding, Mind

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• Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

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  Persistence, Concentration, Difficulty

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• Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

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  Vanity, Landscape, Said

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• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

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  Spring, Looks, Delight

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• The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

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  Art, Landscape, Wonder

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• Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

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  Color, Variables, Pigment

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• It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

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  Photography, Lenses, Instruments

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• Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

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  Reason, Pleasure, Good Things

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• The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

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  Artist, Insincerity, Tolerate

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• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

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  Expression, Drawing, Form

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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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  Art, Sake, Taste

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• In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

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  Reflection, Echoes, Hue

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• The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

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  Character, Choices, Influence

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• 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.

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  Artist, Law, Doe

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• It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

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  Sunset, Autumn, Heaven

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• Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

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  Fall, Eye, Successful

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• Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

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  Artist, Technique, Doe

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• Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

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  Spiritual, Artist, Vanity

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• Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

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  Sparks, Affluence, Forgotten

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• Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

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  Thinking, Order, Waiting

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