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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
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Walter J. Phillips
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 25
Died: 1963
Died: July 5
Painter
Wood Carver
Barton-upon-Humber
Lincolnshire
Walter Joseph Phillips
Walter Phillips
Phillips
Art
Arrangement
True
Enduring
Form
Arrangements
Nothing
Compared
Colour
Bases
Endure
Chiaroscuro
Importance
Pictorial
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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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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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The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.
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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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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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Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!
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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.
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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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Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment it is as much a part of painting as of music.
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Tradition is a prop for social security.
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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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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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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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Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
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For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
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Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
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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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Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.
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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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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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