Craft Quotes

641 Craft quotes by 534 unique authors

There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a choice you have… — Kobe Bryant
Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall.… — Stephen Dobyns
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them… — Helmut Gernsheim
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A… — Scott Lynch
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. — Lavrenti Lopes
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. — Harry Shearer
I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works… — Ryan Adams
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if… — Leonardo da Vinci
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so… — George Washington
I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones… — Twyla Tharp
Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary.… — Twyla Tharp
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. — Paul Gauguin
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. — Fred Rogers
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced… — Philip Guston
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it… — Kazimir Malevich
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper… — Herbert Gold
Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake — Justin Timberlake
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in… — David Brooks
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a… — Eric Maisel
Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time? — Eric Maisel

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