Quotes About Craftsmanship

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

I really think of the studio as being like craftsmanship time, and then playing is about releasing energy, and the two are really different.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.