Top 20 Sickert Quotes
#1. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
Shaquille O'Neal
#2. To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter Sickert
#3. Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
Walter Sickert
#4. The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
Walter Sickert
#6. WALTER SICKERT was connected with Jack the Ripper long before I appeared on the scene. I'm not the first one to think of him. But I'm the first to investigate him the same way we would a suspect today.
Patricia Cornwell
#7. 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
#8. A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
Peter Brook
#9. The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'
Celine Dion
#10. Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
Walter Sickert
#12. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert
#13. A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
T. S. Eliot
#14. How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
Aubrey Beardsley
#15. You'll recall," said Sickert, brushing dust from his trousers with the back of his hand, "that a year or two ago I was chased through the back streets of King's Cross by a posse of prostitutes all crying 'Jack the Ripper!' after me.
Gyles Brandreth
#16. 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
#17. Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
James Anthony Froude
#18. Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners
Jeffrey Rowland
#19. African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
Miriam Makeba
#20. A search through Whistler's correspondence, now online at the University of Glasgow, paints a portrait of a relationship that at times was volatile, with Sickert swinging from sycophantic to offended and defensive. Whistler's
Patricia Cornwell
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