Walter J. Phillips Quotes

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

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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.

  

  Walter J. Phillips
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  • Painting
  • Landscape