"To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious."

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Source : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

Walter Sickert

#Likes Quotes #Serious Quotes #Artistic Quotes

“It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.”
“There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.”
“Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.”
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”
“If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.”
“There is no just and serene criticism as yet.”

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