Crafts Quotes · Page 37

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite…

— Ayelet Waldman

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

— William Shakespeare

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of…

— David Brooks

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

— Camryn Manheim

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

— Douglas Crockford

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

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'…

— Edward Dyer

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and…

— Peter C Bunnell

There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction.…

— Christine Vachon

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

— Jay Sankey

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always…

— Brian Bird

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders

“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want…

— Blaise Pascal

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot…

— Dean Koontz

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

— Zac Posen

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death…

— Kevin Smith

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I…

— Robin Tunney

More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to…

— Pharrell Williams

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

— Judi Dench

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