The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.


Phillips in Print: The Selected Writings of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art (ed. 1982)

Walter J. Phillips Quotes

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy...

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy...

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy...

The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy...