“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Who knew that all you needed to pull in the rich dilettantes was an art production that ends all of reality?” — Dennis Liggio 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
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer 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
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 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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make… — Nic Pizzolatto 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
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
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