Quotes About Dilettantes

#1. Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Max Weber

#4. And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Nic Pizzolatto

#5. PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

George Maciunas

#6. The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

Jake Barton

#7. God hides himself from intellectual dilettantes, but reveals himself in Christ to those who humbly seek him.

John R.W. Stott

#8. 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

Iggy Pop

#9. I am committing suicide by cigarette, I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn't. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

Lea Salonga

#11. Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.

Ernest Cline

#12. Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Jan Morris

#13. I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

Emily Osment

#14. Had he liked her all along? Was she the girl he saw every day and was I the girl who fed him and showered him with kisses once a week? It occurred to me that maybe all the time he omitted in our stolen conversations wasn't simply long, boring hours of inventory. I was too angry to cry.

Kiera Cass

#15. Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

Saint Augustine

#16. Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

Seungsahn

#17. We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

Bobby Robson

#18. When you realize how much women mistrust their sex, it makes you wonder how you could ever marry one ...
Dimitris Mita

Dimitris Mita

#19. I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go.

Robert Osborne

#20. I'm old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground.

Chris Geiger

#21. Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Elizabeth Gillies

#22. You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs
they pass into laws
they pass into doctrines
they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#23. The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.

Ricky Maye

#24. Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.

Pema Chodron

#25. Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Mason Cooley

#26. I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

Aleksandar Hemon

#27. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Ad Reinhardt

#28. I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

David Blackwell