Dilettantes Quotes - Page 2

• As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Inspirational, Art, Work

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.813, Northwestern University Press

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• I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

  Antoni Tapies

  Philosophy, Reflection, Study

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• 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 their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  Weegee

  Giving Up, Play, Shoes

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.137, BookBaby

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• PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

  George Maciunas

  Art, Reality, Tides

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• And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Race, Talking, Next

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• 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 not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

  Lea Salonga

  Thinking, Long, Degrees

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• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

  Eleanor Clift

  Politics, John Kerry

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• I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Passion, Want, Decorating

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• 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

  Artist, Reflection, Years

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• 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 and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lonely, Art, Past

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.

  Red Grooms

  Mean, Effort, Guy

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

  David Blackwell

  Research, Not Interested, Areas

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• 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 terms.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Track, Musical, Usurpers

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I am somewhat imprisoned by my fabulous career'". Interview with Fiona Sturges, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2012.

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• 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 learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.

  Nancy Johnson

  Hard Times, Age, Settling

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• It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

  Miranda Richardson

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

  Max Weber

  Mind, Genius, Elements

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Time, Work, Appreciate

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• Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Venus In Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Priests, Delicate, Heard

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 8

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• I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Photography, Art, Visuals

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunting, Rivers, Lakes

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• I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

  Guy Maddin

  Moon, Chicago, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.

  Zach Condon

  Years, Way, Instruments

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• 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 wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Opera, Curious

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