Quotes About Craftsmanship

Both making life and making art are pouring spirit into form.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

Writers possess magic. It's in their w

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.