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Walter Sickert Quotes

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

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

Walter Sickert
Photography, Alcohol, Should

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

Walter Sickert
Artist, Rose, Ordinary

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

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

You must come again when you have less time.

Walter Sickert
Inspiration, Luck

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

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"

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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