Quotes About Craftsmanship

Mainly I love working on good writing.

It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

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

I tend not to meet the people I write about because I'm not really interested in the people I write about as people. I don't want to know about their family life. I don't want to know about their bad habits or their good deeds. I'm interested in their work.

I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.

People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.