Crafts Quotes
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I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
— Jerry Uelsmann
You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.
— Julianna Margulies
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
— H. W. Janson
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
— Andrew Wyeth
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
— Mark Twain
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.
— Lisa Loomer
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.
— Lisa Loomer
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
— Paul Klee
A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.
— Titus Burckhardt
Wake the happy words.
— Theodore Roethke
Are all your stars shining?
— J.D. Salinger
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
— Robert McKee
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
— John Szarkowski
All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
— Peter Carey
Racist writing is a craft failure.
— Kwame Dawes
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
— Harry Shearer
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
— Howard Gordon
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
— Ice-T
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
— John Banville
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.
— Bryant H. McGill
Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake
— Justin Timberlake
Self-confidence can be crippling.
— Leonard Michaels
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
— William H Gass
You have to know the human heart.
— Thom Jones
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.
— Harlan Ellison
The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
— Ron Carlson
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
— Grace Paley
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
— Robert Bly
After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
— Anne Lamott
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
— Isaac Babel
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
— John Thorn
Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.
— William Zinsser
Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill.
— Lindsay Buroker
That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.
— Charles Todd
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
— William Kennedy
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
— Paul Gauguin
Good enough is never good enough.
— Alfred Bertram Guthrie
I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.
— LeCrae
If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
— Anthony Bourdain
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.
— Luis Bunuel
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
— Edmund Burke
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
— Demetri Martin
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
— Priyanka Chopra
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
— Jay Sankey
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft
— Robin Sharma
Craft against craft makes no living.
— George Herbert
We want someone to bring us the news.
— William Gaddis
First thought, best thought.
— Allen Ginsberg
All autobiography is fiction.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
— Gabriel Fielding
Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.
— Rosanne Cash
I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.
— Luke Evans
What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.
— Mike McCue
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
— Henry Threadgill
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
— George Herbert
Fill the moment and find variety.
— Paul Newman
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
— Robert Frost
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.
— Peter Thiel
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft
— Tony Benn
Art without heart is craft.
— Eric Gibbons
If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Load every rift with ore.
— John Keats
When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes.
— James Dillehay
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
— Constantin Stanislavski
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
— Camryn Manheim
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
— Roger Scruton
I believe in the honest craft of workmen.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
— George Miller
I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.
— Miles Teller
I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.
— Crystal Renn
As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.
— Robin Sharma
I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
— Gabriel Campisi
You must render: never report.
— Guy De Maupassant