Quotes About Craftsmanship

I think good tailoring and something that's well-made never gets boring or tiring.

The attention to detail on 'Titanic' was extraordinary.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

People who draw tend to think they're craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it's not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it's faster and easier to start with the computer.

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I had a dark room in my bedroom. I was always taking apart cameras and putting them back together. I still am a tinkerer.

I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Tom Ford does everything perfect.

An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left

It was not a sack, but rather a circle of denim that would spread itself flat with the cord fully unlaced. Seven deep pockets, each holding one color, pinwheeled from a center humped with plain cuttings of flannel, buckram, and the like.

Titan Clocks were made with iron and gold and human bone; they did not break, and they did not fail.

You think it, I ink it.

the only reason anything good ships is because of the programmers. They are everything. They are not factory employees; they are craftspeople, craftspeople who are the fundamental creative engine of making software.

The popularity of Dilbert, The Office, and any number of other pop-culture windows on cubicle life attests to the dark absurdism with which many Americans have come to view their white-collar work."2 It has been only in the past hundred years that work has become this way. In the centuries of civilization prior, many more of us had crafts and skills that gave us pride.

Yes, Ray Bradbury did write 25,000 words of Fahrenheit 451 in just a few days. But what's often not told about that amazing burst of productivity is that he later revised the book several times over the course of a year, expanding its length and heavily editing it, before it reached its final published form. In every legendary story of bursts of creativity there is a dance somewhere if you look carefully.