Quotes About Workmanship

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

Ich bin ein fleißiger Mosaikarbeiter, kein Dichter.

It makes me cross that no one takes great pride in doing a good job. It's so rare to find someone who really loves their trade.

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

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

The craftsman and the artist say, "Here, I made this." The workingman is asked to follow instructions.

The Indian vessels, a contemporary British observer wrote, 'united elegance and utility and are models of patience [sic] and fine workmanship.' Indian workers were considered expert in all shipbuilding materials—wood, iron and brass

all parents were, by the law of nature, "under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children" they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them.

In the souls of the craftsmen who carved this mine, utility was no excuse for a thing to be anything but beautiful.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. —Psalm 139:14

There's a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there's something fascinating about watching people work, whether it's someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I'll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood's grain talking to me.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Beijing's foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative - using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts, leaving behind shoddy workmanship and fueling corruption.

You, Eternal Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship.

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Oh, I love my Calcutta clients! They understand good-quality stones and they want good-quality jewelry, be it colored stones or diamonds or good workmanship.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.