Walter J. Phillips Quotes
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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.
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Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
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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.
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
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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.