Walter J. Phillips Quotes

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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, 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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• 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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• 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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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

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  Art, Integrity, Independence

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• Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.

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  Art, Rights, Humanity

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• A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.

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  Beautiful, Block, Cutting

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• Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

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  Black, Etching, Variation

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

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  Perfection, May, Painting

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

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  Personality, Peculiar, Genius

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

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  Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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• Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

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  Failure, Drawing, Use

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• The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.

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  Expression, Conception, Superiors

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

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  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

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  Teacher, School, Artist

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• The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.

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  Expression, Texture, Woods

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• When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.

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  Mean, Technique, Paper

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• The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

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  Interesting, Simplicity, Essentials

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• The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

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  Simplicity, Unity, Portraits

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• However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.

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  Sacrifice, Clouds, Rivers

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• Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.

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  Artist, Years, Interesting

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