Walter J. Phillips Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Country, Appreciation, Art

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unity, Landscape, Sake

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Drawing, Form

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• Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Distance, Artist, Perspective

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• It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Law, Perception, Needs

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Copying

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• Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Attitude, Grateful, Artist

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Block, Cutting

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• 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

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Failure, Drawing, Use

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Degrees, Enthusiasm, Impossible

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• The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Chiaroscuro, Form

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• Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Light, Quality, Technique

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Order, Waiting

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Differences, Energy

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Design, Construction, Given

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• Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Expression, Language

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• The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Methodology, Disturbed, Admirable

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

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Insincerity, Tolerate

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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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Black, Etching, Variation

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