Craft Quotes

641 Craft quotes by 534 unique authors

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. — Jack Nicholson
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now… — Conor Oberst
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it. — Clive Owen
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. — Clive Owen
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way. — Tom Peters
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,… — Ezra Pound
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. — Harry Reasoner
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. — Ryan Reynolds
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. — Vidal Sassoon
Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it. — Amy Sedaris
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder… — Alfred Sisley
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as… — Patti Smith
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. — Wole Soyinka
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there… — Kevin Spacey
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft. — Rod Stewart
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. — David Ogden Stiers
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the… — Amy Tan
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind… — Ayelet Waldman
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last. — Vera Wang
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability… — Jennifer Weiner
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with… — Donnie Yen
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read… — Khaled Hosseini
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky

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