Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies.… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man,… — Arthur Morrison Copy Share Image
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
[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… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
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