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 More Quotes by Walter J. Phillips More Quotes From Walter J. Phillips 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 construction design given 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 grateful artist attitude The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent. Walter J. Phillips demand artist dull 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. Walter J. Phillips suggestions rights art The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. Walter J. Phillips genius peculiar personality In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded. Walter J. Phillips painting perfection may 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 block cutting beautiful 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 waiting order thinking The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. Walter J. Phillips landscape wonder art 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 differences energy expression A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. Walter J. Phillips drawing eye mistake 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 admirable disturbed methodology 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 slave technique thinking 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 language artist expression Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. Walter J. Phillips quality technique light 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 chiaroscuro form art 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 artist teacher school 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 humanity rights art Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently. Walter J. Phillips exhibitions light may
