Crafts Quotes - Page 38

• The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

  Ryan Tedder

  Classic, Relevant, Songwriting

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• Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

  Susan Wiggs

  Writing, Practice, Attention

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• As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

  Billy West

  Long, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

  Eva Zeisel

  Order, Support, Pottery

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• You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Errors, Years

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• There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a choice you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

  Kobe Bryant

  Mean, Son, Sacrifice

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

  MaryAnn F. Kohl

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

  Robert Dugoni

  New York, Writing, Novelists

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• She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh

  Laura Joplin

  Thinking, Drawing, Perfect

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

  Harry Shearer

  Firsts, Can Do Something, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Littles, Tunes

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Merchants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.344

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• I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Ignorant, Excellence

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• There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

  George Washington

  Daughter, Sunday, Night

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• Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Lending, Groove

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• My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Emotional, Purpose, Aim

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• If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  School, Succeed, Technique

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• Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

  Fred Rogers

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Agendas, Curriculum

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• The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Hands, Soul, Guarantees

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• There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mysterious Things, Paint

  "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, p. 67, quoting 'transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow (1966), 1990.

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• Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Technique, Elements

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