Amy Sedaris Quotes

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

I love arts and crafts. They used to be my favorite in school.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

I like arts and crafts.

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.