Quotes About Craftsmanship

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.

The very best khakis are made by Bills Khakis.

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

I just like building stuff.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

The ones who give quality will be successful.

But 'Love My Way,' it would be incredibly difficult to resist jumping back in all these years later. I think it would be a very interesting thing to do. We have all moved on with different things. It was such a long time ago but, because the drama was so beautifully written and crafted, it would be irresistible probably.

I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.