Quotes and Sayings About Crafts
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
-- Aaron Carter -
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
-- Aishwarya Rai BachchanSource : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.
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We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.
-- Alan Arnett McLeod -
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
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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 -
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
-- Alberto Manguel -
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
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Good enough is never good enough.
-- Alfred Bertram GuthrieSource : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1991). “A field guide to writing fiction”, Harpercollins
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it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
-- Alfred Lansing -
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
-- Alfred Sisley -
First thought, best thought.
-- Allen GinsbergSource : Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.7, HarperCollins
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If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
-- Andrew Mason -
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
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It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
-- Annie Proulx -
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!
-- Anthony Mackie -
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
-- Arthur Godfrey -
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.
-- Arthur Miller -
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film . . ..
-- Arthur Miller -
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
-- Arthur Quiller-CouchSource : On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)
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Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
-- Barkhad AbdiSource : "‘Captain Phillips’ breakout star Barkhad Abdi talks Tom Hanks, Oscars nod". Interview with Gregory E. Miller, nypost.com. January 24, 2014.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts
-- Beatrice Wood -
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
-- Ben Harper -
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