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Walter J. Phillips was a significant figure in the field of 【Identity Positioning】. Born on October 25, 1884, and passed away on July 5, 1963, his life was marked by a rich tapestry of experiences. His biography highlights his background, education, and career, with a focus on his achievements and contributions to the field, as well as his enduring impact and evaluation by later generations.

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“It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.”

Whole Photography Instruments Lenses Exaggeration Whole Truth

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”

Doe Form Black White Sky Photography Ordinary Relation Blue Mess Tone Colour Yellow Plates Lenses Sunflower Travesty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Ifs Should Faces Natural Gone Paint Painter Landscape Features Insult Latter Occupation Portraits Portraiture Presumptuous

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.”

Divine Forgotten Prosperity Esteem Painter Sparks Affluence

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“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”

Spiritual Artist Force Heaven Walks Vision Divine Genius Conscious Ears Paint Chosen Painter Vanity Landscape Unconscious Urges Angle Real Beauty Emulation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.”

Doe Artist Poverty Technique Permit Realism

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“The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.”

Art Quality Rewards Precarious

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“Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.”

Painting Rhythm Pigment

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“Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.”

Knows Years Has Beens Use Artist Chance Interesting Creative Study Creation Fields Colour Schemes Creative Art Creative Artists Adventuring

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.”

Ifs May Plans Sacrifice Tree Rivers Clouds Hills Colour Conform Exquisite

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Succeed Series Unity Strive Simplicity Painter Variety Landscape Contrast Arrangements Portraits Strife Dose

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Facts Interesting Effects Painting Essentials Notes Simplicity Studios Pencils Most Interesting Elimination

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“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.”

Care Achieve Style Development Degrees Take Care Instruction Notable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Giving Emotion Subjects Style Inspire Praise Critics Painter Landscape Impulse Beholder

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“Subject has the variety of life.”

Subjects Variety

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“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”

Artist Intelligent Technique Mediums

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“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.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

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“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 Lines Tone Subtle Delicate Sheer Variation Etching

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Tradition is a prop for social security.”

Social Security Tradition Social Security Props

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“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.”

Said Painter Vanity Landscape Pencils

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“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.”

Difficult Painting Depends Intention Speed Certainty

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“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.”

Men Individual Personality Unique Method Technique Every Man Remarkable Fingerprints

Author:Walter J. Phillips

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

May Doe Quality Humility Pride Vanity Admirable Admirable Qualities

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“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.”

Wells Enough Seems Artist Names Creative Modern Conditions Breaths Rewards Appreciation Spite Division Honour Creative Art Legion Creative Artists

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“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.”

Art Real Country Age Passion Literature Easy Art Is Universal Appreciation Materialism Works Of Art

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“Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.”

Mind May Understanding Beauty Scene

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.”

Form Expression Drawing Visuals Representation Graphic

Author:Walter J. Phillips

About the Author

Born: October 25, 1884
Died: July 5, 1963
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Quotes: 80

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