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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

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  Art, Quality, Copying

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• Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

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  Quality, Copying, Common

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• Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

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  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Artist, Design

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• It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

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  Ignorance, Artist, Stupidity

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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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• Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division.

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  Appreciation, Artist, Names

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• Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.

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  Country, Appreciation, Art

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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 play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

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  Men, Lazy Man, Play

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• In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.

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  Unity, Landscape, Sake

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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 based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.

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  Ambition, Artist, Understanding

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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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