Art Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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

“AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR”

— Henry David Thoreau

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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 primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

— Grandma Moses

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

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

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

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

— Robert Genn