Walter Sickert Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. — Walter Sickert

You must come again when you have less time. — Walter Sickert