Craft Quotes
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
Garth Stein
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
Kage Baker -
I didn't craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order.
B. R. Hayden -
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
Farrah Fawcett -
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Adam Hicks -
Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie -
A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
Taylor Kitsch
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
Walter Gropius -
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
Aristotle -
You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.
Morgan Freeman -
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
Adam Cohen -
Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves. Like any craft it may end in producing useful objects, or it may rise to the level of art.
Anni Albers -
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
John Searles
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
Rachel Kushner -
I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
Malcolm McDowell -
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
Abby Wambach -
Craft is everything.
Omari Hardwick -
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
Vidal Sassoon -
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
Alfred Sisley -
I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.
Roddy Ricch -
You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.
Reginald VelJohnson -
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis