Sickert Walter Quotes & Sayings

I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition. — Paul Blanshard

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

So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it. — Arun Manilal Gandhi

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases. — Johnnie Cochran

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping? — Anthony Liccione

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

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. — Baden Powell De Aquino

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying? — Andrew Dominik

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

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

You are my forever Chloe and today is just the beginning of great things to come for us. Without you in my life things would be empty. You honestly make me who I am. I'm a better man because of you — T.H. Snyder

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee

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

You'll need to suffer to make any real art. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

If you want to master your past at some point in time you'll have to learn forgiveness. — Chris Vonada

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas. — Billy Graham

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

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