Crafts Quotes - Page 14

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

  Xavier Dolan

  Philosophy, Style, Dogma

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Children, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Thinking, Listening, Slacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Running, Past, Choices

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Class, Trying

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Independent, Differences, Magic

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Painting, Bunch, Painter

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.

  Monica Potter

  Responsibility, Character, Light

  Source: www.etonline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

  Judi Dench

  Experience Yourself, Use

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

  5 Copy quote

• I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Country, Art, Sorry

  5 Copy quote

• Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.

  Troy Polamalu

  Spiritual, Warrior, Mma

  Source: www.complex.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.

  Troy Polamalu

  Might, Way, Found

  Source: www.complex.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

  Harlan Ellison

  Passion, Skills, Three

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

  Rick Jarow

  Art, Life Is, Destination

  Rick Jarow (1995). “Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

  Richard Cabral

  Actors, West Coast, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about who's real and who isn't. Study your craft and your industry, practice all the time, challenge yourself - write things you think you can't, try things you have been told you shouldn't try - leave room for surprises, and learn how to collaborate.

  Karen Walton

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go so far on pure talent so you also need to know your craft well. I directed tons of shorts in college and acted in a slew of non paying acting work. You just have to be prepared. Period.

  Jaime Zevallos

  College, Keys, Preparation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

  David Shrigley

  Skills, Pretending, Persons

  "What the Hell Is David Shrigley Doing?". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2011.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

  Nikka Costa

  Perfect, Goal, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems to be, unfortunately, enough. But you got to take care of your business, surround yourself with good counsel, and that didn't happen.

  Michael Wright

  Art, People, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.

  Crystal Renn

  Moving, Cameras, Body

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Believe, House

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

  Georgia Heard

  Believe, Writing, Essentials

  7 Copy quote