Walter Sickert
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.Collection: Photography
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.Collection: Artist
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?Collection: Artist
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.Collection: One Day
You must come again when you have less time.Collection: Inspiration
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.Collection: Likes And Dislikes
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.Collection: Men
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.Collection: Passion