"Life must be something more than dilettante speculation." — Anna Julia Cooper

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• What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in… — Odilon Redon
• One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world,… — Carlos Castaneda
• Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's… — Brian Eno
• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover… — John F. Kennedy
• Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist — George V
• I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one… — Nancy Johnson
• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce… — Peter Greenaway
• There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms… — Winston Churchill
• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great… — Weegee
• I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson
• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante — Eleanor Clift
• I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it. — Cristina Saralegui

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