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

- Walter J. Phillips

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

- Walter J. Phillips

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…

- Walter J. Phillips

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

- Walter J. Phillips

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

- Walter J. Phillips

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 car…

- Walter J. Phillips

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

- Walter J. Phillips

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

- Walter J. Phillips

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

- Walter J. Phillips