Dilettantes Painting Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music. — Action Bronson

What's so menacing about the universe?
The size. Of course I was smaller then. — Woody Allen

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that. — Gwen Stefani

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether. — Dalai Lama

Because of my deepest love for the whole human
race, I am more than love and compassion ever
could be.
Petra Hermans
September 28, 2016 — Petra Hermans

He had gathered about him what was considered by many to be the intellectual and artistic elite ... actually, a group of bored men and libertines who were glib-tongued, talking much of art, literature, and music but without any deep-seated convictions upon any subject aside from their own prejudices. Mainly concerned with their own posturing, they were creatures of fad and whim, seizing upon this writer or that composer and exalting him to the skies until he bored them, then shifting to some other. Occasionally, the artist upon whom they lavished attention were of genuine ability, but more often they possessed some obscurity that gave the dilettantes an illusion of depth and quality. In the majority of cases what was fancied to be profound was simply bad writing, bad painting, or deliberately affected obscurity. — Louis L'Amour

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life. — Plato

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax — Baltasar Gracian

Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon