Amateur Quote by Paul Cezanne

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater. That's what…

— Charles Bradley

“If an artist only as good as there art and a poet only as good as there poetry if I am neither of these…

— Nathella

Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges…

— Lauren Oliver

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

— David Gilmour

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very…

— Tarja Turunen

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

— Eric Gill

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

— Rick Ross

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an…

— Marjane Satrapi

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

— Suzy Bogguss

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

— Ne-Yo