Quotes by Walter J. Phillips

Walter J. Phillips

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

Drawing

Eye

Mistake

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.

Common

Copying

Quality

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.

Appreciation

Artist

Names

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.

Artist

Expression

Language

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

Concentration

Difficulty

Persistence

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential… In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

Order

Thinking

Waiting

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.

Black

Etching

Variation

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

Eye

Fall

Successful

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

Humility

Pride

Vanity

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

Echoes

Hue

Reflection

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Appreciation

Art

Artist

Attitude

Beautiful

Black

Blue

Character

Chiaroscuro

Choices

Common

Concentration

Copying

Country

Degrees

Delight

Demand

Design

Development

Difficulty

Drawing

Dull

Echoes

Etching

Expression

Eye

Fall

Form

Gone

Grateful

Hue

Humility

Ignorance

Independence

Influence

Integrity

Intention

Interesting

Landscape

Language

Law

Looks

Men

Mistake

Names

Needs

Order

Painting

Perception

Persistence

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Quotes by Walter J. Phillips

Walter J. Phillips

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

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.

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.

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.

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential… In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

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.

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

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