Walter Sickert Quotes
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
Walter Sickert
Quotes to Explore
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
Damian Woetzel
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
Barry Humphries
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
Nargis Fakhri
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
Danica McKellar
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
Barack Obama
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Usus communis aquarum est.Nec solem proprium natura nec aera fecitnec tenues undas
Ovid
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau
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Celebrate my escape, sold the Glock, bought some weight. Laid back, I got some money to make. Motherfucker!
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Perez Hilton: Are you drunk right now?Grohl: No, I gotta play.Perez: Britney Spears has been getting wasted all the time, hasn't stopped her.Grohl: Yeah, but she doesn't have to sing live.
Dave Grohl
Foo Fighters
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
Jay Parini
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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
Andrew Sean Greer
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
Barbara Kruger
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My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
Andres Serrano
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Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
Walter Sickert
