Marriage Quote by Ben Shahn

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is…

— Ben Shahn

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do…

— James Agate

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of…

— Roland Barthes

A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.

— Serge Lutens

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid,…

— Yehudi Menuhin

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can…

— Steven Pressfield

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

— Jim Jarmusch

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it.…

— Amanda Palmer