I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life.
I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.
Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.