Crafts Quotes · Page 10

Technical achievement without vision is only craft.

— Carole Katchen

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

— Justin Hires

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

— Henry Mintzberg

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

— Robert Frost

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

— Wallace Stegner

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

— E. B. White

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

— Anna Quindlen

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft…

— Robert Moog

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

— Camryn Manheim

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

— Theodore Roethke

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

— Rumi

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

— Hans Hofmann

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability…

— Todd Newton

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and…

— Leonard Bishop

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land…

— Robert E. Howard

One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to…

— Eugene Hutz

There's all these stores all over the country and a lot of them are small but they're like little Aladdin's caves full…

— Sara Davies

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some…

— Ray Stannard Baker

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.…

— Ovid

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's…

— John Darnielle

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing…

— Kara DioGuardi

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

— Laura Owens

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental…

— Kanye West

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our…

— Edward Albee

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can…

— Adrienne Rich

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The…

— Walter Gropius

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…

— Philip Roth

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison…

— Caridad Svich

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…

— G. M. Trevelyan

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by…

— Alton Brown

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

— Barkhad Abdi

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

— Aaron Carter

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

— Joseph Caryl

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

— Frank Langella