Walter Sickert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
Tonight I'm the designated drinker.
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

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