Craft Quotes

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

~ David Bayles

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

~ William Goldman

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all,’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.

~ Darynda Jones

Developing your voice takes... time and practice.

~ Darynda Jones

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

T.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn’t matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it’s in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.' What matters, is to connect your own voice with an infinite range of verbal cadences & sequences – and only endless actual experience of your ear can store all that in your nervous system. The rest can be left to your life & your character.

~ Ted Hughes

Remember...Keystrokes are hammer taps. Get words on paper. Don’t worry about connections, character or plot. Work for an hour. Promise yourself an hour. Do nothing else but move your fingers. Make coarse shapes. Follow any emotion that pops up but never impose emotion, never fake it, and don’t make up your mind or your heart ahead of time. Understand you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s why you’re here. Rough it out. Anything goes. You can decide later what any piece of text looks like, what it might mean. Don’t stop. Don’t question. Don’t quit. Don’t stop to read what you wrote. Move your fingers. You mind will have no other option but to keep up. Remember that writer’s block is merely the cold marble waiting for the chisel to heat up.

~ Bob Thurber

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

~ Lindsay Buckingham

You seek to torment. But I am not a witch. Trial me, I will not confess to the craft.”“I don’t blame you for being a witch. I condemn you for not accepting the burden of your talent. Now open that door.

~ Luggs

Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense caring about your discipline. Don't slack, don't give it a lick and a promise, don't make it evident that you posted what was 'good enough for government work,' don't try and fake it. Give it your best, your all, not for pence, but for the love of the craft. Do these things, as these writers and scores I have not named do, bring to your work your self, your heart, your voice, motherly or youthful, lawyerly or priestly, conservative or liberal, it matters not. Do this and I and hundreds of others will return again and again to your work, not merely because we may have a burning need for a new printer or an abiding interest in college newspapers or what have you, but because we wish to spend time with your mind and voice.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.

~ Anurag Wadehra

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

~ Neil Gaiman

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body.

~ Annie Dillard

I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.

~ Elizabeth E. Castillo

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach

~ Raymond Chandler

Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little bit of creativity.

~ Maura Madden

Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it's there inside you. At Crafternoon, you are a CraftStar.

~ Maura Madden

However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.

~ Anupama Chopra

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

~ Matt Mullenweg

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

~ John Irving

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

~ Steve Earle

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

~ Snoop Dogg

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

~ David Hockney

I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the whole craft. That was when I wrote everything on the album. I put out 'Don't Ya,' and it took off.

~ Brett Eldredge