Quotes About Craftsmanship

Hi, I'm not answering my phone right now because I'm building kitchen cabinets at 111 Main Street. I'm putting my heart and soul into these cabinets so I won't be returning calls until I'm finished with the job. Please know I will give the same attention and care to your work, as well. If you need to talk to me feel free to come by 111 Main Street during my lunch break at noon.

While most people approach their work with the mindset they just want to get it done, craftspeople are more concerned with who they are becoming and what they are creating whether than how fast they finish it.

The crafts-person is only thinking about building his work with love... when you care about your work you stand out in a world where most don't care. Caring leads to success.

In many ways, the role of design in a corporation has shifted dramatically from one of craftsmanship—making artifacts—to one of facilitation—or driving an agenda. Designers find themselves operating in a space between project manager and consensus driver—and that's not a particularly creative or invigorating place to be. For those who end up in this role, the following may offer guidance to rekindle the creative embers that are beginning to burn out.

Anything of a serious nature isn't "instant"—you can't "do" the Sistine Chapel in one hour. And who has time to listen to a Mahler symphony, for God's sake?

Those statues were exquisitely carved, without exception; that was what the Egyptians were really good at, along with organized religion and civil engineering.

With my own fair hands.

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

La educación de la voluntad es una tarea de artesanía psicológica trazada desde el esfuerzo continuado.

El estudio de la naturaleza no forma jactanciosos artífices de la charlatanería ni ostentadores de la cultura por la que pugna la mayoría, sino espíritus independientes, capaces, orgullosos de sus propios bienes y no de los que surgen de las circunstancias.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

It is what happens whenever a machine replaces the labor of an artisan: the artisan's skills become devalued.

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

The Grand Master had two anvils – a standard farrier's type for dropping on cartoon characters, and a broader-topped one with no horn that she was currently using.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

The eye of a master will do more work than his hand.