Craft Quotes

"To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you."

"Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me."

"I just tried to be an artist in my own metier."

"I like working with my hands, need to do that more often."

"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

"When I'm working on my music, I take special care to make sure the sound is perfect."

"Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'"

"As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'"

"I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound."

"I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect."

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity."

John Keats

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Paul Valéry

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

Mark Twain

"Poetry is all nouns and verbs."

Marianne Moore

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot

"A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit."

Archibald MacLeish

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

Johannes Brahms

“The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.”

Michelangelo

“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”

John Ruskin

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

Erik Adigard

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

John Ruskin