Walter J. Phillips Quotes

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

• Development
• Instruction
• Notable

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

• Moving
• Painting
• Emotion

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

Walter J. Phillips

• Water
• Tranquility
• Expressive

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

Walter J. Phillips

• Mind
• Understanding
• Beauty

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

• Taken
• Painting
• Landscape