Walter Sickert Quotes

United Kingdom, Painter
May 31, 1860 – January, 22, 1942.

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

Also known as Printmaker

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

Walter Sickert
- Work
- Serious
- Dislike
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
- Lead
- Canvas
- Deaf
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

Walter Sickert
- Artist
- Wring
- Attar
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

Walter Sickert
- Cash
- Passage
- Knits
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
You must come again when you have less time.

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

Walter Sickert