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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.
Walter J. Phillips
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Walter J. Phillips
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 25
Died: 1963
Died: July 5
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Barton-upon-Humber
Lincolnshire
Walter Joseph Phillips
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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.
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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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The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
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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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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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Subject has the variety of life.
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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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Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
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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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The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.
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The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
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The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
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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.
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Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
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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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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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The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.
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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
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A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.
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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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