Art Quote by Albert Serra

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

— Santiago Calatrava

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

— Robert Genn

The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer.…

— Lawrence Weiner

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

— Frederick Franck

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

— Paul Cezanne

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

— Bill Viola

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something…

— Mani Ratnam

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

— Yoko Ono

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it…

— Frank Ocean

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically…

— John Updike

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - ,…

— Christopher Bollen