Crafts Quotes:

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

- Aaron Carter

topic: Crafts, Want, Study

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

source: "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.

topic: Blessed, Experience, Crafts

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

topic: Beer, Crafts, May, Craft Beer

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

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Crafts

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

topic: Long, Trying, Crafts

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

topic: Reading, Crafts, Crowds

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

topic: Book, World, Crafts

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

topic: Editing, Crafts, Actors

Good enough is never good enough.

- Alfred Bertram Guthrie

source: Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1991). “A field guide to writing fiction”, Harpercollins

topic: Crafts, Never Good Enough, Good Enough

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

- Alfred Lansing

topic: Crafts, Just Do It

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

topic: Artist, Crafts, Should, Loveliness

First thought, best thought.

- Allen Ginsberg

source: Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.7, HarperCollins

topic: Crafts, Firsts

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

topic: People, Secret, Crafts

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

topic: Emotional, Purpose, Crafts

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Writing, Crafts, Spirit

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

- Annie Proulx

topic: Flames, Crafts, Metamorphosis, Moths

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Keys, Crafts

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Interesting, Crafts, Tweet

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

topic: Independent, Crafts, Scripts, Indie Films

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

topic: Blessed, Excellence, Crafts, Human Capacity

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

topic: Believe, Long, Crafts

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

topic: Humanity, Theatre, Crafts

. . . 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

topic: Thinking, Play, Crafts, Adapting

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-Couch

source: On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)

topic: Writing, Pieces, Crafts, Art Of Writing

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Knowing, Crafts, Study, Knowing Something

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

topic: Looks, Crafts, Painting

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

- Barkhad Abdi

source: "‘Captain Phillips’ breakout star Barkhad Abdi talks Tom Hanks, Oscars nod". Interview with Gregory E. Miller, nypost.com. January 24, 2014.

topic: Acting, Crafts, Want

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

- Beatrice Wood

topic: America, Crafts, Wonderful

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

topic: Ideas, Stronger, Crafts

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

topic: Scratches, Crafts, Succeed, Quills

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

topic: Crafts, Stones

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

- Billy Eckstine

topic: Music, Crafts, Want

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

- Billy West

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Crafts

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Growing Up, Father, Crafts

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

- Brand Blanshard

source: Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge

topic: Cutting, Anchors, Crafts

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

topic: Fall, Thinking, Crafts, Stay True To Yourself

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

- Brooke Shields

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Crafts

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

- Camryn Manheim

topic: Venice, Pockets, Crafts, Street Performers

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

- Carolyn Kizer

topic: Crafts, Poet

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

topic: Pride, Thinking, Crafts

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

topic: Differences, People, Crafts

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

- Chris Offutt

topic: Secret, Stories, Crafts

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

- Christopher Cross

source: "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

topic: Crafts, May, Want

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

- Christopher Cross

topic: Thinking, Mtv, Crafts

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

topic: Actors, Crafts, Young, Employing

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Crafts

. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.

- Craig Lucas

topic: Trying, Crafts, Wild One

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: Technique, Crafts, Efficiency

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

topic: Trust, Sea, Crafts, Submerged

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

topic: Crafts, Letters, Notes

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

- David Hare

topic: Writing, Crafts, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue

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

topic: Glasses, Play, Crafts

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

- David Hare

topic: Important, Crafts, Speak

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

- David Ives

topic: Heart, Warning, Crafts

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

topic: People, Tears, Crafts, Masters Degree

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

topic: Feelings, Magic, Crafts, Exhilaration, Best Poet

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 LaChapelle

source: "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.

topic: Photography, Ideas, Crafts, Immediacy, Photography Love

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

- David O. Russell

topic: Crafts, Worthwhile

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

topic: Crafts, Orchestra, Masters, Forthcoming

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

source: "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

topic: Artist, Crafts, Succeed

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Glitter, Crafts, Herpes

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

- Diane Johnson

source: "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

topic: Character, Thinking, Crafts

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

topic: Impact, Political, Crafts

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

- Donald Barthelme

topic: Doe, Tasks, Crafts

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

- Donald Hall

topic: Kindness, Eye, Crafts, Bright Eyes

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

topic: Air, Long, Crafts, Operators, Radar

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

- Doris Grumbach

topic: Eye, Crafts, Tiny

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

- Dorothy Allison

source: Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Strong, Feelings, Crafts

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

- Douglas A. Lawson

topic: Character, Crafts, Might

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

- Douglas Crockford

topic: Data, Crafts, Requirements, Data Structures, Factoring

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

- Douglas Sirk

topic: Style, Crafts, Proud

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

- E. B. White

topic: Communication, Luck, Crafts, Usage, Taste And Judgment

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

topic: Real, Needs, Crafts, Extraterrestrial

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

topic: Imagination, Feelings, Crafts

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Character, Fiction, Crafts

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

topic: Photography, Magic, Crafts

Art without heart is craft.

- Eric Gibbons

topic: Art, Heart, Crafts

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

topic: Philosophy, Design, Crafts, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

topic: Moving, Athlete, Crafts, Shortstops, One Thing At A Time

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Humility, Crafts, Inspiring Writing, Writer's Block

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

- Eugen Herrigel

topic: Archer, Crafts, Surprise

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

- Eva Green

topic: Needs, Crafts, Lifetime

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

topic: Children, Work Ethic, Crafts, Soap Operas, Big Heads

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 LaRue

source: Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

topic: Children, Going Away, Crafts, Fading Away, Wonderful Friends

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

- Farrah Fawcett

topic: Crafts

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

- Fede Alvarez

source: "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

topic: Fans, Crafts, Film

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Silence, Acting, Crafts

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 Ford

source: Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Reading, Book, Crafts

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

- Ford Madox Ford

source: Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet

topic: Writing, Stories, Crafts

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

- Frank B. Kellogg

topic: Navy, Crafts, Naval

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

- Frank Langella

topic: Skills, Lucky, Crafts

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

- Frank Langella

topic: Believe, Crafts

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

- Frederic Raphael

topic: Morning, Crafts, Pages

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

- Gabriel Fielding

topic: Giving Up, Writing, Crafts

Craft is part of the creative process.

- Gavin Bryars

source: klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

topic: Creative, Crafts, Process, Creative Process

Remarks aren't literature.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Literature, Crafts

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 Ribisi

source: "Ribisi Rising" by Sandra Schulman, dishmag.com.

topic: Artist, Acting, Crafts, Honing

There is a craft and a power in listening.

- Glenn Gould

topic: Listening, Crafts

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

- Gordon Lish

topic: Writing, Crafts, Sincerity

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

- Gordon Willis

topic: Good Movie, Done, Crafts, Electrician

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

source: Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

topic: Photography, Beer, Crafts, Good Photography

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

- Grace Paley

topic: Writing, Crafts

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

topic: Greed, Age, Crafts

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

- Gus Van Sant

topic: Thinking, Directors, Crafts, Film Directors, Cinematography

You must render: never report.

- Guy de Maupassant

topic: Crafts

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

- H. W. Janson

topic: Art, Greatness, Crafts

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

- Hank Azaria

topic: Dance, Kids, Crafts

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

- Hans Hofmann

topic: Crafts, Painting, Reason

There is no method except yourself.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Crafts, Method

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

- Harry Shearer

topic: Crafts, Firsts

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

- Henry Beston

topic: Nature, Joy, Crafts, Inspirational Nature, Beauty Of The Earth

In art economy is always beauty.

- Henry James

topic: Art, Crafts, Economy

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

- Henry James

topic: Crafts, Easy, Form

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Art, Crafts, Students

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

- Henry Threadgill

topic: Music, Art, Crafts

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

- Herbert Gold

topic: Use, Paper, Crafts, Paper And Pen

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

- Herman Melville

topic: Noble, Crafts, Melancholy

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

- Hippocrates

topic: Life, Long, Crafts

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

- Horace

topic: Eye, Years, Crafts, Nine Years

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

topic: Heart, Iron, Crafts

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

- Isaac Barrow

source: Isaac Barrow (1849). “Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects”, p.38

topic: Simplicity, Crafts, Shallowness

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

- J. M. Coetzee

source: "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

topic: Deception, Use, Crafts, Treachery

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Writing, Important, Crafts

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

- James A. Michener

topic: Writing, Crafts, Excellent, Creative Writing, Great Writing

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

- James Frey

topic: Crafts, Execution

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

- James MacArthur

topic: Years, Actors, Crafts, Personal Grooming

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

- James Toback

topic: Lying, Giving, Crafts, Dramatic Life

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Ballet, Crafts, Study, Honing

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

- Jay Sankey

topic: Art, People, Crafts

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

topic: School, People, Crafts

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

- Jennifer Carpenter

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Journey, Looks, Crafts, Beginning Middle And End

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

- Jennifer Ellison

source: "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

topic: Ballet, Crafts, Grounding

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

- Jerry Colangelo

topic: People, Crafts, Sponges

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

- Jerry Uelsmann

topic: Photography, Attitude, Crafts

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

- Jim Harrison

topic: Defense, World, Crafts

I take my craft very seriously.

- Jimmy Chamberlin

topic: Crafts

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

- Jimmy Smits

source: "Jimmy Smits - Actor, Activist and Altruist". Interview with Lisa Manafian, www.hispanic-today.com. September 8, 2011.

topic: Giving, Roles, Crafts, Campers

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

- Joe Morton

topic: Careers, Looks, Crafts

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

- Joe Morton

topic: Jobs, Television, Crafts, Film And Television

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

- John Banville

topic: Civilization, Crafts, Invention, Human Inventions

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

- John Barth

topic: Novelists, World, Crafts

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

- John Irving

topic: Writing, Crafts, Architecture

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

- John Milton

topic: Smell, Enemy, Crafts

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Writing, Stories, Crafts

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: People, Crafts, May

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Art, Writing, Crafts, Art Of Writing

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

- John Szarkowski

topic: Photography, Essence, Crafts, Of Context

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

- Johnathon Schaech

topic: Thinking, Actors, Crafts

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

- Jonis Agee

topic: Drama, Gun, Crafts

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

- Joseph Brodsky

topic: Writing, Names, Crafts

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

- Joseph Caryl

topic: God, Delight, Crafts

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

- Joshua Foer

topic: Fiction, Crafts, Way, Tandem

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

- Joyce Cary

source: Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

topic: Emotional, Crafts, Argument

You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.

- Julianna Margulies

topic: Keys, Actors, Crafts, Never Stop Learning

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

- Justin Bieber

topic: Artist, Perfect, Crafts

Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake

- Justin Timberlake

topic: Practice, Crafts, Justin

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

- Kate Mulgrew

topic: Promise, Crafts, Rooms

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

- Katherine Anne Porter

topic: Writing, People, Crafts

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

source: Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

topic: Kids, Drug, Crafts

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

- Kathy Bates

topic: Life Changing, Years, Crafts, Honing

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

- Kellan Lutz

topic: Meat, Sandwiches, Crafts, Cheese Sandwiches

It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

- Kerry Joyce

topic: Space, Looks, Crafts, Decor

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

- Kid Rock

source: Twitter post from Dec 28, 2013

topic: People, Half, Crafts

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Sacrifice, Decision, Crafts

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

- Kris Carr

source: "The Myth of Finding Your Purpose" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

topic: Self Worth, Calling, Crafts, Treat Yourself

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

- Kristin Davis

topic: Work Out, Crafts, Made

Racist writing is a craft failure.

- Kwame Dawes

topic: Writing, Racist, Crafts

The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

- Lachlan Murdoch

topic: Diversity, Crafts, Pay, Profit Motive

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

- Laini Taylor

topic: Writing, Pieces, Crafts

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

- Lavrenti Lopes

topic: Dedication, Crafts, Admire

My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

- Laz Alonso

source: "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

topic: Art, Piano, Crafts, Playing Piano

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

- LeCrae

topic: Artist, Growing, Crafts

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

topic: Imagination, Depth, Crafts

Self-confidence can be crippling.

- Leonard Michaels

topic: Self Confidence, Self, Crafts

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

- Leonard Michaels

topic: Literature, Triangles, Crafts

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

- Leonard Michaels

topic: Attitude, Stories, Crafts

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

- Lew Hunter

topic: People, Village, Crafts

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

- Lisa Loomer

topic: Issues, People, Crafts, Serious Issues, Subversive

When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone - or text! - is being knowingly changed. Fortunately, this has happened only once. Next time I would say No earlier, and definitively. Otherwise, ultimately, the only No you have is No, you can't open the play. And that No is very very hard to say.

- Lisa Loomer

topic: Play, Crafts, Next

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

- Lisa Loomer

topic: Writing, Play, Crafts

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

- Lois Duncan

topic: Writing, Self, Crafts, Self Taught

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

- Loren Eiseley

topic: Mind, Crafts, Obscure

You need to know your craft.

- Lorena Garcia

topic: Needs, Crafts, Chef

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

- Lucinda Williams

topic: Writing, Crafts, Able

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

- Lucinda Williams

topic: People, Crafts, Want

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

- Luis Bunuel

topic: Art, Elements, Crafts

Craft your love into everything

- Lulu

topic: Crafts

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic. And my painting still today is very flat...American craft is like that too -- the painting is very flat. And also the painting that you see on the storefronts, handmade signs, tend to be very flat. That's probably my biggest influence...

- Margaret Kilgallen

topic: Thinking, Crafts, Today, Handmade, Printmaking

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

- Marie Arana

topic: Reading, Writing, Crafts

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

- Mark Ruffalo

topic: Giving, World, Crafts

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

- Mark Twain

topic: Writing, Editors, Crafts, Cursing, Creative Writing

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

- Martin McDonagh

topic: People, Listening, Crafts

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

- Martin Rees

topic: Tiny, Crafts, Solar System, Robotics

[W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

- Mary Daly

topic: Men, Crafts, Roles

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

- Melissa Rosenberg

source: "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

topic: Writing, World, Crafts

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Divorce, Trying, Crafts

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

- Michael Haneke

topic: Television, Shooting, Crafts

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

- Michael K. Williams

topic: Character, Goal, Crafts

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

- Michiko Kakutani

topic: Art, Redemption, Crafts, Craze

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

- Mike Svob

topic: Artist, Practice, Crafts