Walter Sickert

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

— Walter Sickert

You must come again when you have less time.

— Walter Sickert

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

— Walter Sickert

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

— Walter Sickert

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take',…

— Walter Sickert

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

— Walter Sickert

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

— Walter Sickert

Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured…

— Walter Sickert