Crafts Quotes · Page 11

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

— Robert Southey

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

— Jim Harrison

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

— Jared Leto

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

— Richard Wilbur

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

— Janice Dickinson

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

— Robert Breault

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

— Twyla Tharp

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities…

— Justin Chadwick

It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with…

— G-Eazy

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

— Gabriel Fielding

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount…

— Thomas Carlyle

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and…

— Raekwon

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

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

— Douglas Crockford

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the…

— Alberto Giacometti

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try…

— James Dickey

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged,…

— Barack Obama

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes…

— A. R. Gurney

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling…

— Tabatha Coffey

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

— Ellen Barkin

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

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that…

— Paul Schrader

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one…

— John Dryden

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,…

— William Boyd

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.…

— Susan Sontag

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best…

— Michael Kosser

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry…

— Diane Ackerman

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…

— Robert Bringhurst

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

— Sophocles

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

— William Tyndale

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

— Zubin Mehta

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

— Thom Jones

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

— Tony Vincent

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

— Robert Stone