Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Aaron Carter

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

John Ridley

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

David O. Russell

Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

David Ogilvy

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

Damian Kulash

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Hesiod

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

We had 23 of them, ... each a craftsman and a leader, running independent but coordinated crews. The studio was not happy.

Henry James

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Customers are more into crafts and into spending time with their children.

Gertrude Stein

Remarks aren't literature.

Hans Hofmann

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

Herman Melville

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

George Herbert

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

George Herbert

Craft against craft makes no living.

Fede Alvarez

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Farrah Fawcett

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Francis Ford Coppola

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Guy de Maupassant

You must render: never report.

Jared Leto

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Eva Green

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Harry Shearer

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Harold Bloom

There is no method except yourself.