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For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
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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Wood Carver
Barton-upon-Humber
Lincolnshire
Walter Joseph Phillips
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The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.
Walter J. Phillips
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.
Walter J. Phillips
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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Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
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Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
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It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
Walter J. Phillips
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
Walter J. Phillips
Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.
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The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.
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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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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible 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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Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
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A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
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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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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.
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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.
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The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.
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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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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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