Sickert Quotes & Sayings

First and foremost, he never imputes a base motive to anyone else. If someone is rude to him, he assumes that the rudeness is unintentional. If he knows that it is intentional, he acts as if it were not. He never insulted anyone himself except by intention. He never met anger with anger. He never patronized anyone because he never assumed that he knew more than anyone else or that uneducated people are unintelligent. He never corrected (or smiled at) other people's slips. "Always," my mother would say, "allow other people the luxury of being mistaken. They will find out for themselves soon enough. If they don't, they are the kind of people in whom it does — Whittaker Chambers

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

When he lifted her arm and bit into the delicate skin on her inner bicep, she gasped. He followed the bite with a soft, lingering kiss, then helped her straighten up and turned her around to face him. — Anonymous

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

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

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

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. — Yeardley Smith

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. — Christiane Amanpour

There's nothing worse than looking as if you've tried too hard or preened to within an inch of your life. If I'm wearing a strong item like a really beautiful dress, then I'll play down my shoes and accessories and make my hair really natural. — Louise Nurding

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

Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it's not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic. — Lori Lansens

I'd learned that when something sounded too good to be true, it almost always was. — Anonymous

He who reforms, God assists. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And yes, I am a Republican. — Meghan McCain

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

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

Pride is the rope God allows us all. — Leif Enger

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Ms. Fuller explained to me that the reason Sickert gave Ms. Pash for his divulging such a fantastic and shocking story was he wanted the truth "known but not during his lifetime." To prove his point, Sickert supposedly showed Ms. Pash a number of "murder paintings that he later burned," Ms. Fuller told me. — Patricia Cornwell

The eternal feminine draws us up. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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