Crafts Quotes · Page 16

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that…

— Clive Owen

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery…

— Eva Zeisel

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

— Ann Patchett

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music…

— Luke Bryan

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along…

— Terence McKenna

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

— Priyanka Chopra

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

— Joseph Boyden

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no…

— Lisa Loomer

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to…

— Martha Stewart

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a…

— Neil Armstrong

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely…

— Gabriel Mann

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise…

— Oswald Spengler

Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over…

— David Starkey

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't…

— TyDi

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…

— E. M. Forster

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…

— Naomi Wallace

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set…

— T. S. Eliot

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you…

— Larry Correia

I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning…

— David Henry Hwang

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,…

— Richard Cobden

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation…

— Ron Dennis

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently…

— Lynsay Sands

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality…

— Olivier Theyskens

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

— Arthur Erickson

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of…

— Gerald Durrell

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

— H. W. Janson

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

— Walter Darby Bannard

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and…

— Amy Sedaris

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really…

— James MacArthur

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be…

— Pusha T

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

— Robin Tunney

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your…

— Ford Madox Ford

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

— Steve Kanaly

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

— Sarah Kay

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better…

— Clive Owen

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

— Katie Couric