Walter Sickert Quotes

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

  Walter Sickert

  Photography, Alcohol, Should

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

  Walter Sickert

  Artist, Rose, Ordinary

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• 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

  Artist, Achievement, Groups

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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, Sitting, Done

  Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

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• You must come again when you have less time.

  Walter Sickert

  Inspiration, Luck

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

  Walter Sickert

  Likes And Dislikes, Serious, Artistic

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Walter Sickert

  Men, Hands, Cash

  New Age 28 July 1910 "The Language of Art"

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

  Walter Sickert

  Passion, Thinking, Misunderstood

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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