The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is… — Weegee Copy Share Image
As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I… — Red Grooms Copy Share Image
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all… — George Maciunas Copy Share Image
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all. — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never… — David Blackwell Copy Share Image
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image