“The craft of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.”
— John Steinbeck
“The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.”
— Robin Tunney
“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.”
— Raymond Chandler
“Craft means great products, individually and lovingly made by a creator who cares.”
— Judy Cramp
“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.”
— Steve Martin
“Craft is all about using the skills.”
— Chris & Hannah
“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life is written large in his works.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It’s not something that just comes in a dream. You’ve got to work at it.”
— Sean Lennon
“Love is a well-stocked craft room.”
— Anonymous
“Craft is the visible edge of art.”
— David Bayles
“Craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision.”
— David Bayles
“Being made by human hands, the craft is made for human hands: we can not only see it but caress it with our fingers.”
— Malcolm Mc Collough
“I think of craft as work that the designer has put a little piece of their heart and soul into.”
— Sarah Dukes
“Craft is passionately creating something with your hands.”
— Sarah Chatterton
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
— Madeleine L’Engle
“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”
— Michael J. Kannengieser
“Being literate as a writer is a good craft.”
— Douglas Adams
“You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.”
— Lucinda Williams
“Craft is creating with my hands from my heart and having control over the whole process.”
— Helen Hallows
“I think …the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen.”
— Douglas Adams
“Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.”
— Anne Sexton
“Craft is certainly an application of skill, and it may yet involve the skilled hands.”
— Malcolm Mc Collough
“Craft makes our homes more human.”
— Ilse Crawford
“Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”
— Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
“I sometimes ponder on variation form, and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.”
— Johannes Brahms
“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist.”
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
“And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”
— Wole Soyinka
“Art can’t be taught; passion can’t be taught….but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.”
— Elizabeth George
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
— Hippocrates
“No one masters his craft the first day.”
— Roman proverb
“Craft against craft makes no living.”
— George Herbert
“I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.”
— Kathy Bates
“A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then.”
— William Goldman
“Before undertaking his craft, the artisan first sharpens his tools.”
— Chinese proverb
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still until your eyes ache.”
— David Hockney
“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
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
— Francis of Assisi
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.”
— Hans Hofmann
“Well, you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.”
— David Hockney
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
— Johannes Brahms
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet, and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
— Emile Zola
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
— Eugene Delacroix
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling….for us imagination is worth far more.”
— Edouard Manet
“The difference between an artist and a craftsman is that a craftsman is interested in his or her tools, and an artist disdains them.”
— Richard Benson
“Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.”
— Seema Brain Openers
“I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.”
— Pete Buttigieg
“You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.”
— Vidal Sassoon
“Art that submits to orthodoxy…but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost, leaving only the craftsmanship.”
— Andre Gide
