Quotes About Craftsmanship

Having worked with so many directors, I liked the look of what they were doing. It seemed to be a lot more creatively satisfying, putting all the parts together, joining the puzzle together, creating the tone of a piece.

A great drum record has to sound good; in fact, it should sound special. It should capture the richness and the actual tones of the drums themselves, regardless of who is playing.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

A good knife is an essential tool in the kitchen, but when you get one handmade, it becomes something special.

Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

When you make and drape clothing, the scissors are your tool. What can I say about them? They're my babies. And you have to take care of them correctly. You have to have them sharpened, and you can't use them for any other material.

And knife making is as much art as science, as far as I'm concerned: Forging metals from an old farm tool into a blade thin enough to effortlessly cut a tomato yet strong enough to mince ginger, all while looking beautiful, is comparable to Ginger Rogers dancing backwards in heels.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

I have a thing for tools.