Crafts Quotes - Page 11

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 ever-expanding base of experience.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

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 the sensation which possessed the artist.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

We want someone to bring us the news.

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

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. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

The furthest out is the only place to be.

All autobiography is fiction.

A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

Each photographer has their own vibe and presence that they bring to their shoots. Steven Meisel is a teacher. He teaches everyone on set something about their craft. He has an amazing way to bring out everyone's best in themselves.