Quotes About Craft

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Headline writing is an art form.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

What I'm good at is making art.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Art lies in concealing art.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Directing is a tremendous art.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.