To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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.
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.
Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us.
First thought, best thought.
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.