Crafts Quotes · Page 16

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

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better…

— Clive Owen

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

— Katie Couric

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

— Sarah Kay

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

— Donald Hall

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

— Robin Tunney

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

— Ford Madox Ford

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't…

— TyDi

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on…

— Robin Williams

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed…

— Tennessee Williams

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time…

— Bette Midler

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as…

— Cynthia Ozick

I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you…

— Larry Correia

I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning…

— David Henry Hwang

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…

— Naomi Wallace

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set…

— T. S. Eliot

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.…

— Molly Peacock

The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle,…

— Robin McKinley

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…

— E. M. Forster

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be…

— Pusha T

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

— Steve Kanaly

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of…

— Gerald Durrell

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

— Arthur Erickson

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality…

— Olivier Theyskens

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation…

— Ron Dennis

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently…

— Lynsay Sands

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really…

— James MacArthur

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and…

— Amy Sedaris

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

— H. W. Janson

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

— Walter Darby Bannard

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery…

— Eva Zeisel

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

— Priyanka Chopra

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Lisa Loomer

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

— Joseph Boyden