Amateur Quote by Yehudi Menuhin

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do…

— James Agate

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of…

— Roland Barthes

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

Just because you are a good amateur, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good professional.

— James DeGale

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can…

— Steven Pressfield

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

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

— Steve McQueen

“An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and…

— Ryan Holiday

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the…

— Jim Jarmusch

As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment…

— Michael Langford

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an…

— Charles Kettering