Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Walter Sickert More Quotes by Walter Sickert More Quotes From Walter Sickert 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 groups achievement artist The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. Walter Sickert artist ordinary rose 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 one-day done sitting To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. Walter Sickert likes-and-dislikes artistic serious You must come again when you have less time. Walter Sickert luck inspiration Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. Walter Sickert cash men hands Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. Walter Sickert misunderstood passion thinking
