Dilettantism Quotes

#1. There are only two things that make me angry in the world: dilettantism and intolerance!

Peter F. 'Rius Jilek

#2. arts, I said, just like that in painting, in literature, I said, even philosophers are ignorant of philosophy. Most artists are ignorant of their art. They have a dilettante's notion of art, remain stuck all their lives in dilettantism, even the most famous artists in the world. We

Thomas Bernhard

#3. Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Leon Wieseltier

#4. The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Walter Gropius

#5. Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Jean Cocteau

#6. To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Hans Hofmann

#7. Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Brian Eno

#8. And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

Francesco Clemente

#9. A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

Justus Von Liebig

#11. The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Max Weber

#12. Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Arnold Bennett

#14. But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.

Dawn French

#15. Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

Wes Anderson

#16. You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Ethan's particular brand of attention was intense and a lot to accept at first, but it worked for me. Ethan worked for me. He could show me how much he wanted me, and for the first time I had some hope that we could really make this relationship work.

Raine Miller

#18. and the rest is silence

William Shakespeare

#19. It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Shirley Hazzard

#20. Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel De Cervantes

#21. They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations...

Seja Majeed