Crafts Quotes · Page 17

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

— Judith Jamison

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and…

— Tommy Cooper

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us…

— Edouard Manet

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract…

— Thomas Keneally

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

— Ice T

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

— Wole Soyinka

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their…

— Cass Sunstein

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

— Chelsea Handler

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on…

— Ali Farahnakian

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being…

— Sonakshi Sinha

The smell of roses, my children's bright eyes and smiles, laughing with my husband, walking on the beach, using my hands to…

— Lisa Loeb

I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you…

— Kendrick Lamar

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a…

— Eugen Herrigel

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a…

— Kevin Spacey

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see…

— Tony Kushner

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the…

— Mark Twain

Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…

— Annie Dillard

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction…

— Rick Springfield

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for…

— Dave Grohl

The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially…

— Blake Bailey

I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a…

— James Dean

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…

— E. M. Forster

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.…

— Susan Sontag

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

— Ansel Adams

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or…

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

— John L'Heureux

With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on…

— Allison Holker

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because…

— David Rakoff

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach…

— Aisha Hinds

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

— Yannis Philippakis

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

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

— John Steinbeck

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

— Satish Kumar

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

— Anonymous

If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper…

— Usher

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this…

— Andrew Mason

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

— David Ogilvy

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put…

— Miles Teller