J.B. Phillips Quotes

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

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

Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

You write to find out what you believe.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

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

I married a damned cereal killer

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

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

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

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.

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

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

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

Be content with nothing less than perfection.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

My dad's not a big talker.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.