Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I think you get most of 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. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

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.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there's always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving them by hand. So it's as much our desire to keep it going as what we believe is the public's desire for handmade stuff that really feels handmade, where they aren't being tricked into it being handmade.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.