"I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for……" — Chuck Close
"I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it."
More Amateurs Quotes
- I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
- Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
- The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
- Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark
- Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
- Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
- It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this… — Gerald Brenan
- Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer
- None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
- No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- Amateurs hope. Professional work. — Garson Kanin