Art Quote by Paul Cezanne

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

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 ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR”

— Henry David Thoreau

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

— Grandma Moses

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

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

— Robert Genn

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

— Ruth Asawa