dilettante quotes

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain that the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

- Odilon Redon
c.1871  Journal entry, quoted in Portfolio, no.8, Spring1964 (translated by Richard Howard).

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.8, l.309^11.