Crafts Quotes · Page 7

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

— Nancy Kerrigan

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

— Henry Threadgill

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

— William Stafford

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

— William Shakespeare

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

— Jack Nicholson

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

— Edward M. Lerner

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

— Vidal Sassoon

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

— Robert McKee

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

— Erik Adigard

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in…

— N. T. Rama Rao Jr

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you…

— Lois Duncan

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

— Frederic Raphael

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper…

— Wole Soyinka

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of…

— Leon Jouhaux

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist…

— Scott Lynch

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a…

— David Hockney

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them…

— Jane Asher

I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and…

— Jake Busey

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the…

— Michael Haneke

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it…

— Michael Ealy

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking…

— Nipsey Hussle

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank…

— Daniel H. Pink

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a…

— Leon Uris

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader…

— Barbara Tuchman

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,…

— Patch Adams

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of…

— Warren Leight

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating,…

— Bill Atkinson

Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

— Tom Stoppard

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

— Rod Stewart

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

— John L'Heureux

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

— Rosanne Cash

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

— Lew Hunter

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

— Anton Chekhov