Crafts Quotes - Page 4

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

We of the craft are all crazy.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.