“I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.” IfsThinkingArtArtistArt IsPaidRegardProfessionIncomeDescriptionCategoriesVocationTemperament Author:Tony Kushner
“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.” IfsHardActorsHellPaidProfessionBridgesGasStationsWayneBuilderGaryGas Stations Author:Humphrey Bogart
“I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.” IfsLongWantedTermPaidProfessionLong Term Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.” WantImportantEndsResultsEconomyPositionPaidProfessionProgrammersEnd Results Author:Linus Torvalds
“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.” MenWorldKindMomentsBodyEarthForceHeavenMy OwnDoubtWifeIntegrityPaidSellsProfessionOur WorldHonourLowest Book:Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
“In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?” MoneyPaidPhilosopherProfessionFounders Book:Night Watch Source: Night Watch
“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.” WritingPaidProfessionFrustrationHostility Author:Octavia Butler