Quotes About Craft

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

I believe in art that conceals art.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Art is a business, like any other.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Art without heart is craft.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.