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“Art is not a career - it's a life.”

Art Careers Art Is Profession

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years.”

Way Years Taken Fit Rounds Profession Holes Squares Astronaut

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.”

Thinking Art Artist Profession Always Thinking Brokers

Author:Jeff Koons

“Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.”

World Important Jobs Artist Ability Fine Office Harder Financial Profession Firm Changing The World Unexpected Something New Delightful Fine Arts Fine Artists Office Jobs

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.”

Ifs Remember Sleep Careers Healthy Profession Remember You Remembers You Bad Boy Bad Boyfriend

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.”

Ifs Art Feelings Fall Wall Cold Paint Studios Warm Profession Feel Good Painter Falling Down Sculptors Not Feeling Good

Author:Jack White

“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.”

Firsts Littles Home School Jobs Remember Students High School Cooking Profession Bars Our Family Heat Carter Handicaps

Author:Bobby Flay

“In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.”

People Way Body Instruments Profession One Way

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”

People Knows Giving Trying Kind Has Beens Art Enough Artist Differences Fine Type Profession Not Sure Call Me Fine Arts Illustrators Fine Artists Best Art

Book:Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

Source: Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.”

May Art Ideas Wish Worthy Profession Painter Remembered Niche Exalted

Author:Samuel Morse

“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”

People Doe Hard Young Choices Difficulty Competition Profession Chess Etc Occupation Hobbies

Author:Boris Spassky

“A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.”

Ifs Years Looks Artist Careers Profession Fathom Trenches

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.”

Enemy Profession

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

Ifs States Facts Education Greater Willing Promise Lays Profession Engaged

Book:Isocrates

Source: Isocrates

“Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.”

Imagination Depth Profession Crafts Release Competence Great Writers

Author:Leonard Bishop

“Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.”

May Art Privilege Deny Profession Privileged

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.”

Ifs Writing Art Running Art Is Profession Climbing Toilets Pipe Plumber Sewers Plumbing Wrenches

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

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

Art Profession Enthusiastic Jaded

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

Author:Robert Genn

“The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.”

People World Conditions Painting Members Standards Medicine Paint Profession Association Pilots Airline Dentistry Airline Pilots

Author:Robert Genn

“I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.”

Needs Art Kids Artist Fun My Own Careers Profession Clock Boss Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.”

Should Teaching Noble Profession Merit Seniority Noble Profession

Author:Mark Kostabi

“I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.”

Art Jobs Support Teacher Groups Fields Paint Seven Profession Wilderness Geography Day Jobs Field Trip Geography Teachers

Author:Robert Bateman

“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.”

Way Shows Truth Certain Rich Growing Honesty Amount Profession

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.”

Art Science Realizing Modern Profession Branches Naturalist

Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.”

Men Firsts Remember Profession Grandfather Sections My Grandfather Pioneers

Author:Robert E. Howard

“It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.”

Men Home Practice He Man Health Profession Daily Work Practice Of Medicine General Practice

Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.”

Teaching Higher Standards Profession

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.”

Ifs Giving Doe Profession Scent Daffodil

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.”

World Real Acting Profession Real Life

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”

People Knows Want Needs Ought Profession Journalism Citizenship

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”

Ifs Men Persons Can Do Ability Business Successful Honesty Honor Profession Chosen Honorable Deserving Successful Person

Author:Will Rogers

“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”

Ideas Age Poet Profession Chosen Magazines Editors Fifteen Publishers Procedures Magazine Editors

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.”

Bigs Science Games Interest Fields Mere Profession Superiors Wilderness Closets Hunters Hazards Explorers Naturalist

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439

“Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.”

Work Sin Profession

Book:The Superhuman Crew

Source: The Superhuman Crew

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.”

Ifs Thinking Might Would Be Earth Form Guy Courses Evil Literature Behinds Theory Roots Various Profession Oppression Masculinity Exaggeration Literary Works Literary Theory

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.”

Writing Painting Profession Hardest

Author:Anjelica Huston

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

People Heart Soul Seems School Used Actors Acting Audience Player Performances Aim Moved Profession Ghost Used To Be Reviews Compliment Buried Stakes Crossroads

Author:David Mamet

“A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?”

Whole Taken Generations Example Creation Type Industry Workers Profession Composer Veteran Academy Music Industry Subversive Docile Downtrodden

Author:Itay Talgam

“The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and the third thing is the great profession that I chose. I chose to do something that I love. I never had to work a day in my life.”

Important Life Is My Family Thirds Important Things Profession

Author:Sam Rutigliano

“Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.”

Years Two Standing Seven Profession Ice Cream Ice Cream Seven Years Cones Ice Cream Cones

Author:Ron Luciano

“Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.”

People World Looks Generations Goes On Profession Architecture Vacation Better Place Idealistic

Author:Frank Gehry

“Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.”

Author:Lawrence Bender

“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.”

“For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.”

Long Habit Lovers Behavior Long Time Profession

Author:Jean de la Bruyere