Craft

Craft.  You bastard.  You cost $200,000 dollars and years of study to learn. But you will embody joy and a relaxed creation when I use you.

Craft is the knowledge of how to mix blue with yellow
on my palette, but art is the courage to dip the brush
into the paint and lay it on the canvas in my own way.
Craft is knowing when to revise a manuscript and when
to leave it alone, but art is the fire in the mind that put
the the story on the page in the first place.  To grow
in craft is to increase that breadth of what I do, but
art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage
to be myself and myself alone, to communicate what
I and only I can communicate: that which I have
experienced or imagine.

Pat Schneider