Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.
