“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.” WritingArtBookInspirationSchoolChoicesStuffViewsPoint Of ViewDialogueCraftsPlotWorkshopsCharacterizationPacingWord Choice Author:Garth Stein
“I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.” MeanIdeasInspirationOpinionDesignPersonalityTasteCreatingCraftsFabric Author:Olivier Theyskens
“Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risqué. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.” WritingSometimesInspirationJokesAreasDown AndCraftsAttractivePlusPerformers Author:Mindy Kaling
“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.” PeopleFeelsArtInspirationFacesMusicInspireMusicianAlbumsCraftsFeatsDisrespectfulBeyonce Author:Kanye West
“Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.” ThinkingWritingInspirationHonestCraftsMixturesBrutally Honest Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.” WorldWritingMayTwoIdeasEndsSometimesWholeInspirationSongGoneWrittenMinutesDivineDown AndCraftsTitlesPhrasesSatSongwritingStoppingChorusDivine InspirationBest Of Both Worlds Author:John Oates
“In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.” IdeasInspirationTurnsNew YorkPaintingAmountProjectsCraftsArtisticEndeavorSculptureAdapting Author:Martha Stewart