Doing Crafts Quotes

#1. To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies.

Andrea Navedo

#2. People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

Maddie Ziegler

#3. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

Tina Howe

#4. I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

David Ogilvy

#5. That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Jim Harrison

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

George Herbert

#7. 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

#8. I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

Paul Samuelson

#9. I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.

Fetty Wap

#10. I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

David Oyelowo

#11. There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Peter Guber

#12. If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

Martha Stewart

#15. Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

Lew Hunter

#16. All autobiography is fiction.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#17. To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#18. Innocence crafts its own demise.

F.T. McKinstry

#19. Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Spalding Gray

#20. To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Debbie Harry

#21. Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.

Gregory Rabassa

#22. My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.

Future

#23. Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

David O. Russell

#24. I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Moliere

#25. Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Beatrice Wood

#26. I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Christina Milian

#27. If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

Noah Wyle

#28. You need to know your craft.

Lorena Garcia

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Katie Couric

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Carolyn Kizer

#36. 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

#37. You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

Samuel Goldwyn

#38. The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Edmund Gosse

#39. We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

Jeffrey Deitch

#40. Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Elizabeth Bowen

#41. I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Robert Bly

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

T. S. Eliot

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

Titus Burckhardt

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

Glenn Gould

#47. I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary ... So long as I've learned something about why.

Alberto Giacometti

#48. I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

Priyanka Chopra

#49. 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

#50. Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

Waldo Salt