Quotes About Crafts

#1. You need to know your craft.

Lorena Garcia

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Katie Couric

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Carolyn Kizer

#9. 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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Edmund Gosse

#12. 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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

#14. 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

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

Robert Bly

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Titus Burckhardt

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

Glenn Gould

#21. If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Martin McDonagh

#22. 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

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

Priyanka Chopra

#24. 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

#25. Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

Waldo Salt

#26. 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

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

Tina Howe

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

Jim Harrison

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

George Herbert

#30. 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

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

Paul Samuelson

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Peter Guber

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

Ernest Hemingway,

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Lew Hunter

#39. All autobiography is fiction.

Sandra Tsing Loh

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

#41. Innocence crafts its own demise.

F.T. McKinstry

#42. 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

#43. Craft against craft makes no living.

George Herbert

#44. I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few ...

William Morris

#45. I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

David Shrigley

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

Leonard Bishop

#47. Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

Leonard Michaels

#48. Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

Tabatha Coffey

#49. Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

Gene Logsdon

#50. Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.

Elliott Erwitt

#51. In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.

Ace Hood

#52. My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

Leon Jouhaux

#53. The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

Ron Carlson

#55. Once they've borne children, mothers can construct virtually any costume using scissors, felt, Elmer's glue, and a leftover pen spring. They're like the Special Forces of crafts.

Drew Magary

#56. The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious ... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

Robert Olen Butler

#57. Self-confidence can be crippling.

Leonard Michaels

#58. Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. Good enough is never good enough.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie

#60. Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#61. Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

Robert Dugoni

#62. I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

Jane Asher

#63. Craft your love into everything

Lulu

#64. I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Saul Bellow

#65. By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin

#66. I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

Ben Affleck

#67. Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

David Rakoff

#68. That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

William Faulkner

#69. THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

Jon Bon Jovi

#70. The secret is to start a story near the ending.

Chris Offutt

#71. Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

Rico Lebrun

#72. I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Jerry Pinkney

#73. Wake the happy words.

Theodore Roethke

#74. I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Anna Meredith

#75. I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

Gabriel Campisi

#76. My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Nancy Kerrigan

#77. It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. 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

#79. Naming your packaged products helps call attention to how the deal is special. Call the product bundle a collector's set, a gift basket, or holiday set, and give each one a name; something like The Artisan's Selection or Your Name's Gift Set.

James Dillehay

#80. What we have, what we go through - defines us. Makes us. Changes us, whether for better or worse, it crafts who we are.

Ronie Kendig

#81. Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

P.D. James

#82. I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

Eric Betzig

#83. There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Rudyard Kipling

#84. I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Brooke Shields

#85. If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#86. A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Luke Bryan

#87. The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

Loren Eiseley

#88. A bright light at the end of a tunnel can seem warm and inviting, or it can seem mysterious and terrifying. People of the world "all working on their arts and crafts" can seem like heaven or, if you're me, hell.

Mary Roach

#89. If you have a tendency to find yourself in MacGyveresque situations, go ahead and choose a synthetic rope to craft with. I don't want you cursing my name as you hang from a cliff by your swiftly fraying Monkey's Fist necklace.

Maura Madden

#90. In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.

Peter C Bunnell

#91. We're just people Jo he said quietly.
Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Lynsay Sands

#92. 'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

Guy Kawasaki

#93. Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

Judi Dench

#94. The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

Bryant H. McGill

#95. Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

Camryn Manheim

#96. Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

William H Gass

#97. We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

Ida Tarbell

#98. When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

Walter Mosley

#99. Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#100. If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Ben Jonson