Quotes About Craftsmanship

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

I'm the female version of my dad. He builds decks, he builds all types of chairs, my dad is really creative and really hands-on and so I really learned that from my dad.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

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.

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

I would never want to put my name on a crappy thing. So, everything that has my name on it is pretty high quality: I put my heart and soul into it.

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

I really consider acting a high art.