quotes 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.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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.
-- Ansel Adams -
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.
-- Aristotle -
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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.
-- Balthus -
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 -
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
-- Billy Eckstine -
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As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
-- Billy WestSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
-- Brand BlanshardSource : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge
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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 -
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I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.
-- Brooke ShieldsSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
-- Camryn Manheim -
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
-- Carolyn Kizer -
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft
-- Cass Sunstein -
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I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
The secret is to start a story near the ending.
-- Chris Offutt -
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
-- Christopher CrossSource : "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.
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I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
-- Christopher Cross -
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I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
-- Clive Owen -
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
-- Constantin Stanislavski -
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.
-- Craig Lucas -
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
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To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
-- Dan Rather -
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
-- David Foster -
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
-- David Hare -
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.
-- David Hare -
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The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
-- David Hare -
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
-- David Ives -
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
-- David Knopfler -
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 -
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I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
-- David LaChapelleSource : "David LaChapelle: “I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist”". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.
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Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
-- David O. Russell -
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
-- David Ogden StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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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 HarrySource : "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.
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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
-- Diane JohnsonSource : "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.
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If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.
-- Don Berliner -
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
-- Donald Barthelme -
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The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.
-- Donald Hall -
During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.
-- Donald Keyhoe -
My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
-- Doris Grumbach -
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
-- Dorothy AllisonSource : Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.9, Penguin
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Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
-- Douglas A. Lawson -
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
-- Douglas Crockford -
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
-- Douglas Sirk -
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
-- E. B. White -
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The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that site. We all know that UFOs are real.All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?
-- Edgar Mitchell -
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 -
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
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 -
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Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
-- Erik Adigard -
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.
-- Ernest Gaines -
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
-- Eugen Herrigel -
I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.
-- Eva Green -
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.
-- Eva LaRue -
I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.
-- Eva LaRueSource : Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
-- Farrah Fawcett -
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
-- Fede AlvarezSource : "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.
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If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
-- Federico Fellini -
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.
-- Ford Madox FordSource : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
-- Ford Madox FordSource : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet
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I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
-- Frank B. Kellogg -
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill
-- Frank Langella -
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
-- Frank Langella -
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Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
-- Frederic Raphael -
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
-- Gabriel Fielding -
Craft is part of the creative process.
-- Gavin BryarsSource : klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
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For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
-- Giovanni RibisiSource : "Ribisi Rising" by Sandra Schulman, dishmag.com.
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Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
-- Gordon Lish -
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.
-- Gordon Willis -