Art Quote by Ben Shahn

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable…

— Ben Shahn

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

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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera…

— David Hemmings

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

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