Crafts Quotes · Page 20

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

— David Ogilvy

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put…

— Miles Teller

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this…

— Andrew Mason

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he…

— Trevanian

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,…

— Samuel Beckett

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract…

— Thomas Keneally

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us…

— Edouard Manet

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

— Ice T

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about…

— Edward Zwick

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him…

— Eric McCormack

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an…

— Patti LuPone

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a…

— Kate Bush

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical…

— Janet Echelman

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take…

— Adelaide Kane

You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of…

— Bruce McDonald

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come…

— Richard Cabral

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to…

— Steven Soderbergh

We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love…

— Faramir

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger…

— Nicolas Cage

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell…

— Dustin Diamond

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then…

— Morgan Freeman

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

— Wole Soyinka

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their…

— Cass Sunstein

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

— Chelsea Handler

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

— Ansel Adams

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or…

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

— John L'Heureux

With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on…

— Allison Holker

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because…

— David Rakoff

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach…

— Aisha Hinds

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

— Yannis Philippakis

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

— Fred Rogers

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

— Vera Wang

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

— Paul Samuelson

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the…

— Chuck Close