Craft Quotes

641 Craft quotes by 534 unique authors

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft, — Twyla Tharp
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and… — Michael Connelly
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the… — Greil Marcus
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with… — Robert Greene
Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately,… — David Dinkins
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting. — Michael Caine
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect… — Derek Bailey
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in… — Rick Springfield
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of… — Oswald Spengler
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an… — Erwin Chargaff
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the… — Marcus Luttrell
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts. — James Frey
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth… — Edouard Manet
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler. — Brand Blanshard
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best… — Robert Mark Kamen
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also… — Richard Sennett
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 craft... it's just… — Chantal Kreviazuk
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place,… — Phil Cousineau
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged… — Michiko Kakutani
As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. — Robin Sharma
Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made,… — Sam Raimi
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique… — Seth Godin
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not… — Pearl Cleage

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