Art Quote by John Updike

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

“Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything…

— Tomislav S. Šola

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

— Albert Serra

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists…

— Jack White

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

— Robert Genn

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings…

— Alan Lightman

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that…

— Kenneth Tynan

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

— Kedar Joshi

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

— Steven Pressfield

“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We…

— Chuck Palahniuk