Dilettante Quotes

21 Dilettante quotes by 19 unique authors

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. — Odilon Redon
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — 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 medium and then wanting to… — Nancy Johnson
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to… — Peter Greenaway
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no… — Winston Churchill
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All… — 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
Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? — Robert Schumann
The cat is a dilettante in fur. — Theophile Gautier
I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical… — Rufus Wainwright
For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never… — Rufus Wainwright
In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to… — Tom Hodgkinson
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently… — Dave Barry
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton

Who Wrote These Dilettante Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Dilettante Quotes as follows: