Crafts Quotes - Page 3

Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

No ideas but in things.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.

Sincerity is technique.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

The high note is not the only thing.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.