Crafts Quotes - Page 13

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

Craft your love into everything

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

Self-confidence can be crippling.

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.