Crafts Quotes · Page 5

Writing is a craft not an art.

— William Zinsser

Filmmaking is a real craft.

— Sean Durkin

In art economy is always beauty.

— Henry James

You must render: never report.

— Guy de Maupassant

Craft against craft makes no living.

— George Herbert

Good enough is never good enough.

— Alfred Bertram Guthrie

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

— Patti Smith

You have to know the human heart.

— Thom Jones

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

— Jared Leto

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

— Jim Harrison

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

— Robert Southey

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

— Janice Dickinson

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

— Richard Wilbur

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

— Sophocles

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the…

— Sebastian Roche

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

— Paul Hawken

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

— Diane Johnson

The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is…

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Gabriel Campisi

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable…

— Anne Lamott

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this…

— Robert Redford

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem…

— Al Yankovic

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on…

— Lusia Strus

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending…

— David E. Kelley

Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic…

— Mary Daly

That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft…

— Anne Hathaway

To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or…

— Alberto Manguel

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create…

— Phyllis George

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad…

— Pat Forde

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.…

— Richard Price

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.…

— Peter Drucker

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a…

— Laurence Sterne

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for…

— David Ives

What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose…

— Jackie Kennedy

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it…

— Ryan Adams