Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Sickert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British painter Walter Sickert.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Walter Richard Sickert was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

British - Painter | May 31, 1860 - January 22, 1942

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

Walter Sickert

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

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

Walter Sickert

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

Walter Sickert

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

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

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Sickert

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