Walter Sickert quotes
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“Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.”
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“Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.”
-- Walter SickertSource : New Age 28 July 1910 "The Language of Art"
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“You must come again when you have less time.”
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“To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.”
-- Walter SickertSource : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand
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“Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.”
-- Walter SickertSource : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand
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“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?”
-- Walter SickertSource : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand
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“On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.”
-- Walter SickertSource : Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press
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“The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“Tonight I'm the designated drinker.”
Source : Song: Designated Drinker, Album: Drive, 2002
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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