Crafts Quotes · Page 35

Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings…

— Noma Bar

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within…

— Jack Nicholson

Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

— Tony Kushner

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

— Robert Bringhurst

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

— Patti Smith

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have…

— Ellen Barkin

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,…

— Walter Raleigh

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

— Xavier Dolan

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to…

— Gavin Hood

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens…

— David Mamet

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to…

— Steven Soderbergh

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be…

— George MacDonald

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,…

— Caryl Churchill

And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has…

— Michel Foucault

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

There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio.…

— Laura Owens

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London,…

— Arthur Miller

I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to…

— Lorna Luft

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of…

— Jack Nicholson

Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from…

— Gelett Burgess

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

— Hans Hofmann