Crafts Quotes - Page 33

• What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Art, Writing, Men

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• Craft against craft makes no living.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.321

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• A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Law, Judging

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Novel, Rate

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• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Judging

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Waiting, Hats

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Taken, Together, Events

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• I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get in that fold and you're around it, you get to experience something that I don't think we'll ever see again. There will never be anybody like Frank Sinatra. Ever.

  Paul Anka

  Thinking, Influence, Frank

  "Singer-songwriter Paul Anka". "Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 16, 2013.

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• There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Reality, Glasses

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• That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Way

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• Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

  Robert Scholes

  Writing, Mystery

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• High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

  Robert C. Solomon

  Art, Emotional, Class

  Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”

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• If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Perfect, Office

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• When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older.

  Yasmin Paige

  Fun, Passion, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the old days, you could segment happily. You could put out one message to one segment of the audience, and one to another. That has now gone. You say something to one community and instantly, literally at a click, it's available to everybody. What it means is that if you're trying to craft a message, it's very difficult.

  Martin Sorrell

  Mean, Community, Trying

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• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

  Daniel Defoe

  Swim, Storm, Together

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• The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.

  George S. Clason

  May, Knows

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• Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Criticism, Alarms, Sound

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• To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.

  Robin Sharma

  Journey, Practice, Important

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• There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Kids, Eye, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

  Kalup Linzy

  Artist, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

  Stephen Coonts

  Real, Character, People

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• If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Effort, Musical

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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