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Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

Walter Sickert

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

Walter Sickert

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

Walter Sickert

Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?

Walter Sickert

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert

Born: May 31, 1860

Died: January 22, 1942 (aged 81)

Bio: Walter Richard Sickert, born in Munich, Germany, was a painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century.

Known for:

The Camden Town Murder (1908)
Pierrot and Woman Embracing (1904)
Sketch of a female figure (1888)

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