Crafts Quotes · Page 6

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

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

— H. W. Janson

The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,…

— Bret Anthony Johnston

Art is craft, not inspiration.

— Stephen Sondheim

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social…

— Patch Adams

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like…

— Ryan Adams

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

— Joyce Carol Oates

And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .…

— Edward Zwick

There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the…

— Edward Snowden

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught…

— Alberto Manguel

I love arts and crafts.

— Allison Janney

I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like…

— Rita Dove

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.…

— Claude Chabrol

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one…

— Wilfrid Sheed

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and…

— Donnie Yen

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to…

— David Ives

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

— Frederic Raphael

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There…

— Martin Lewis Perl

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

— Robert Southey

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as…

— Cynthia Ozick

Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and…

— Jason Mraz

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.…

— Molly Peacock

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to…

— Jason Epstein

People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you…

— Randy Johnson