Crafts Quotes

• Craft is part of the creative process.

  Gavin Bryars

  Creative, Process, Creative Process

  klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

  Phyllis George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

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• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Apprenticeship

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

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• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  Tadao Ando

  Design, Details, Levels

  Interview with Architectural Record, www.coldbacon.com. May 2002.

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

  Eva Green

  Needs, Lifetime, Polish

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• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

  Bill Budge

  Art, Thinking, Engineering

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• The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  'Aphorisms' sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; see Seneca 'De Brevitae Vitae' sect. 1.

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• The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

  Frank Langella

  Believe

  "Frank Langella - An Actor Matured". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.deseretnews.com. June 15, 1993.

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• A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

  Patti LaBelle

  Doe, Perfectionist

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 30, 2013

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• If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

  Joe Morton

  Careers, Looks, Ifs

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• The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  Balthus

  Looks, Painting, Century

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• And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

  Wole Soyinka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

  Christina Milian

  Art, Fun, Ceramics

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• But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

  Duncan Sheik

  Important, Records, World

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• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  Edouard Manet

  Art, Imagination, Feelings

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• I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

  Clive Owen

  Challenges, Get Better, Trying

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• Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Europe

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Needs, Clock

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Broken Heart, Stars, Wish

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• I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

  James Lipton

  Thinking, Talking, Interesting

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• It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Real, Marketing

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• I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

  Janice Dickinson

  Ballet, Study, Grew Up

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• Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Vision, Puff, Saws

  Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. July 1, 1996.

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• The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

  Ben Harper

  Ideas, Ties, Stronger

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• There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

  Cass Sunstein

  Pride, Thinking, Uprising

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