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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.

    Art   Reality   Tides  
  • 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 room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

    Men   Play   Honor  
  • In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

    Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.113, Edith Wharton
  • I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

    "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.
  • Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

  • 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.

  • 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 (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press
  • 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: 'I am somewhat imprisoned by my fabulous career'". Interview with Fiona Sturges, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2012.
  • 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.

    Lonely   Art   Past  
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”
  • Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

    Stupid   Wine   Men  
  • Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

    Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.194, Rowman & Littlefield
  • The cat is a dilettante in fur.

    Cat   Fur   Dilettantes  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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 nothing. Try everything.

    Giving   Trying   World  
    Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
  • In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Long   Degrees  
  • John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

  • 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

    Hunting   Rivers   Lakes  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Moving   Thinking  
  • 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.

  • Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

    Funny   Running   Ideas  
  • Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.19, Cosimo Classics
  • 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 Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.813, Northwestern University Press
  • What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

    Art   Pain   Looks  
  • 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.

    Mind   Genius   Elements  
    Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

    Thinking   Mirrors   Wow  
    "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.
  • I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • 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.

  • The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

    Greek   Rewards   Leisure  
    "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.
  • And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

    Hate   Humorous   Way  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

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