Walter Sickert Quotes

#1. To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

Walter Sickert

#2. Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Walter Sickert

#3. The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

Walter Sickert

#4. 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 Sickert

#5. Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

Walter Sickert

#6. You must come again when you have less time.

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#7. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

Walter Sickert

#8. 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 Sickert