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Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. -- Nita Leland
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. -- Samuel Beckett
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. -- Lazaro Hernandez
Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it. -- Jill Bennett
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. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft. -- Elizabeth George
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. -- Amy Tan
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing. -- Troy Garity
I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art. -- Ryan Reynolds
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. -- Raymond Chandler
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted. -- Shea Hembrey
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. -- Gloria Steinem
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue. -- Max Minghella
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. -- Martin Filler
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography. -- Donnie Yen
Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well. -- Boman Irani
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. -- Brett Dalton
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time. -- Ali Smith
People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see. -- Ricki-Lee Coulter
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral. -- Garth Stein
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real. -- Janet Echelman
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope. -- Orhan Pamuk
Art without heart is craft. -- Eric Gibbons
Art is craft, not inspiration. -- Stephen Sondheim
Writing is a craft not an art. -- William Zinsser
Work your craft; until it becomes an art from. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. -- Stephen King
In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft -- Susi Moore
In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft -- Susi Moore
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. -- Henry Threadgill
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet -- Henry Mintzberg
Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Writing is possibly an art but crime writing is definitely a craft. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ... -- Elizabeth Bowen
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. -- H. W. Janson
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. -- Steve Martin
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. -- John Steinbeck
We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire. -- Branford Marsalis
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. -- Hilda Doolittle
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end. -- Stephen Graham Jones
Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it -- Jill Bennett
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. -- Ann Patchett
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. -- John Steinbeck
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? -- Walter Darby Bannard
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. -- Jay Sankey
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. -- Bryant McGill
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. -- Roger Scruton
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. -- Jacques Barzun
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. -- Bill Budge
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it. -- Steve Martin
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. -- Thomas Carlyle
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination. -- Rick Jarow
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master. -- Philip Gerard
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
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it. -- Seth Godin
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element... -- Kazimir Malevich
Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do. -- Henry Mintzberg
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking. -- Ethan Hawke

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