Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

Craft against craft makes no living.

For the past two years in the Craftsman Truck Series, we've been trying to learn everything we can about NASCAR racing.

Guy de Maupassant

You must render: never report.

Gertrude Stein

Remarks aren't literature.

Martin Rees

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Martin Luther

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Madeleine L'Engle

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

John Fowles

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I take my craft very seriously.

Henry James

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

Joshua Foer

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Mary Oliver

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Peter Guber

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Randall Jarrell

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Joss Whedon

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Ronald Reagan

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

Ralph Ellison

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Steve Lacy

Make the drummer sound good.