Quote

Be content with nothing less than perfection.

Walter J. Phillips

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Less
Nothing
Content
Perfection

More quotes by Walter J. Phillips

Image
I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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
Image
In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Tradition is a prop for social security.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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
Image
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.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Walter J. Phillips
Image
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