Craft Quotes

#1. Are you committed to the craft, or will you quit when it gets too hard?

Jeff Goins

#2. It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

#3. The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Frank Langella

#4. There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.

Tobin Bell

#5. You need to know your craft.

Lorena Garcia

#6. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

Ray Stannard Baker

#7. I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

#8. Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element ...

Kazimir Malevich

#9. I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Jeff Goldblum

#10. Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

Hassan Fathy

#11. Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Terence McKenna

#12. [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Katie Couric

#13. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

#14. I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

#15. The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone.

Kate Bolick

#16. Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

William Goldman

#17. My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

Peter Facinelli

#18. I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

Jan Hus

#19. Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

Dennis Palumbo

#20. There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the development community that can really craft the solutions and make sure we are safe.

Edward Snowden

#21. I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

Cindy Woodsmall

#22. People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

Joshua Sasse

#23. A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

Wolfgang Puck

#24. Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Robert Bringhurst

#25. Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

Mary Karr

#26. I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Al Pacino

#27. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.

Krista Tippett

#28. The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Madeleine L'Engle

#29. Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

Max Von Sydow

#30. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.

Denis Leary

#31. She was passionate about knitting because it allowed her to reach a state of peacefulness, and she loved to embroider because it let her express her creativity. Both activities were liberating. They allowed her to exist outside of time.

Laura Esquivel

#32. So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

Anthony Bourdain

#33. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#34. I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

Bitsie Tulloch

#35. 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

#36. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834

William Morris

#37. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

#38. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

R. YS Perez

#39. And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Nicolas Roeg

#40. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

Alden Bell

#41. Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

Starhawk

#42. As you live your day so you craft your life. Just take care of your days and a great life will take care of itself.

Robin S. Sharma

#43. The only thing I knew to do with a man was what I'd learned from my parents: to fight or not fight. I had no idea how to craft a partnership beyond that one basic thing.

Veronica Chambers

#44. 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

#45. It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Robert Hass

#46. You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Nicole Kidman

#47. The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#48. Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Adam Driver

#49. It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

#50. In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.

Daniel Radcliffe

#51. You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.

Eli Roth

#52. I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it ... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Tony Gwynn

#53. My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

Anne McCaffrey

#54. the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive

Stanley Fish

#55. For apprentices everywhere - no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master

Elif Shafak

#56. If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Eva Zeisel

#57. DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.

TyDi

#58. Just make sure you're staying true to yourself, and do what you think is good in that craft or field [of yours] and then let everything else fall where it falls.

Brian Regan

#59. What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory.

John Steinbeck

#60. Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

Stella Atrium

#61. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

Ernest Hemingway,

#62. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

#63. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

Michelle M. Pillow

#64. I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

James Gray

#65. Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

#66. A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

Patrick Dawson

#67. A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.

Titus Burckhardt

#68. Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

Nita Leland

#69. There is a craft and a power in listening.

Glenn Gould

#70. What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

Lisa Cron

#71. Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#72. My kind do not spend their days at craft or art. Our deepest desire is not for the making of a thing, nor for the thing itself. Rather, we thrive on the skills of those who make. We steal that time and that power, and we turn it to our own souls, and that is how we grow.

E.K. Johnston

#73. Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't just the "bad guy" anymore, he's the BAD GUY!

Michael J. Sullivan

#74. Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Walter Darby Bannard

#75. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

Winston S. Churchill

#76. When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.

Kevin Schmidt

#77. Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.

Joe Craft

#78. All along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

David Hockney

#79. Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

Michael Jackson

#80. All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

#81. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

Neil Gaiman

#82. The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#83. The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Marcus Aurelius

#84. 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

#85. I just write whenever I can.

Elmer Kelton

#86. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#87. So I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

Stephen King

#88. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

#89. If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#90. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Dan Alatorre

#91. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.

Marquis De Sade

#92. How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Sonya Hartnett

#93. I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.

Joe Craft

#94. Art is a creed, not a craft.

Tom Wolfe

#95. Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.

Jessica Lave

#96. When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

Raekwon

#97. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Harold Holzer

#98. Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Witold Gombrowicz

#99. He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

George Herbert

#100. Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

Chang-rae Lee