Quotes About Craft

Honestly, I don't really hear the comparisons to Taylor Swift anymore. I think it's because people are finally starting to see me for who I am and my craft and not being the next Taylor.

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

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

Some days I am on the road. Some days I am reading, and some days I am copying quotes. Some days I am writing letters, and some days I am writing chapters. There are no days when I am not working on the craft. There are no days when I am not a writer

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

See Mastery as Salvation The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Origami is the art of folding uncut sheets of paper into decorative objects such as birds or animals.

The warp and the woof of the weave.

She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl.

Writing is a two-party democracy. To the left are those who write stories from their heart, or according to the other side of the aisle, from the seat of their pants. On the right are those who write stories from a meticulously constructed outline.

He was embarked, at the time, on a book sighing—I insist, sighing, not signing, though he's pretty adept at that too.

there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.

Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.