Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary. — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis,… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then,… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't. — Alan Arnett McLeod Copy Share Image
To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid. — Richard Cantillon Copy Share Image
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. — Rumi Copy Share Image
