The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. Walter J. Phillips More Quotes by Walter J. Phillips More Quotes From Walter J. Phillips Tradition is a prop for social security. Walter J. Phillips props tradition social 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. Walter J. Phillips etching variation black The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly. Walter J. Phillips texture woods expression 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 technique paper mean For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. Walter J. Phillips technique intelligent artist Subject has the variety of life. Walter J. Phillips variety subjects While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder. Walter J. Phillips style giving inspire Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art. Walter J. Phillips independence integrity art 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. Walter J. Phillips simplicity essentials interesting 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. Walter J. Phillips portraits unity simplicity It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint. Walter J. Phillips unique personality men Be content with nothing less than perfection. Walter J. Phillips perfection 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. Walter J. Phillips perception law needs 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 unnecessary finishing anxiety Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways. Walter J. Phillips drawing failure use The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. Walter J. Phillips conception superiors expression 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 competition strong artist Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible. Walter J. Phillips degrees enthusiasm impossible A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others. Walter J. Phillips emotional heart moving Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. Walter J. Phillips concentration persistence difficulty