Quotes About Craft

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

One day when no one else was around, I went into the craft room at the back of the ground floor. I touched Gran's collection of fabrics, the shiny bright buttons, the coloured threads. My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss...

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

How become a writer? Naturally.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process -- it is, after all, black magic, and may lose its power if we look that particular gift horse too closely in the mouth.

Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

Don't needle the seamstress.

I like making a piece of string into something I can wear.

Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.

High diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such craft And the dish ran away with the spoon.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Écrire est un plaisir et une corvée.

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.

Murdoch Mysteries' has provided me with an opportunity to expand my craft and have learned so much about myself, about directing, acting and contributing the entertainment industry in ways that I wouldn't have imagined before.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

Publishing is not my world.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.