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. Walter J. Phillips More Quotes by Walter J. Phillips More Quotes From Walter J. Phillips Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. Walter J. Phillips tranquility elements water Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself. Walter J. Phillips degrees style development Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. Walter J. Phillips vanity pride humility In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained. Walter J. Phillips echoes hue reflection It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. Walter J. Phillips stupidity ignorance artist 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. Walter J. Phillips landscape-painting lines taken 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 design artist beautiful Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast. Walter J. Phillips pleasure good-things reason Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method. Walter J. Phillips copying quality common Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction. Walter J. Phillips copying quality art There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase. Walter J. Phillips copying increase interesting Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. Walter J. Phillips sincere criticism artist It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn. Walter J. Phillips autumn sunset heaven Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. Walter J. Phillips pigment variables color The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. Walter J. Phillips tolerate insincerity artist Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division. Walter J. Phillips artist names appreciation 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. Walter J. Phillips appreciation country art Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. Walter J. Phillips understanding mind beauty Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. Walter J. Phillips drawing form expression The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man. Walter J. Phillips lazy-man play men
