Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use… — Amy Sedaris
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. — William Shakespeare
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
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is… — Martha Stewart
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
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting… — Lee Strasberg
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
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. — Paul Valery
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
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H.G. Wells
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — Elwyn Brooks White
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. — Steven Wright
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. — Steven Wright
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
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -… — Martin Filler
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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