Quotes About Craftsmanship

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

studied its architecture and intricate decoration

Memoir done right is an art, a made thing. It's not just raw reportage flung splat on the page.

I revise and revise and revise. Any editor of mine will tell you how crappy my early drafts are. Revisions are about clarifying and evoking feelings in the reader in the same way they were once evoked in me.

The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.

A poem requires a design--a sense of orderliness. Part of our pleasure in the poem is that it is a well-made thing. . . .

A poem that is composed without the sweet and correct formalities of language, which are what sets it apart from the dailiness of ordinary writing, is doomed. It will not fly. It will be raucous and sloppy—the work of an amateur.

I write on sheepskin and use goose quill pens," said Brother Michael. "My paints are made of earth and plants." "Wow," said Annie.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

What kind of weirdo makes cheese? It's too hard to imagine, too homespun, too something. We're so alienated from the creation of even ordinary things we eat or use, each one seems to need its own public relations team to calm the American subservience to hurry and bring us back around to doing a thing ourselves, at home.

In my first draft every sentence I put down is to advance the story. Each subsequent draft - the 3rd, the 7th, the 27th - is trying to turn each of those sentences into a poem.

He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be molded.

The others I spoke about,' he went on enthusiastically, 'were the three greatest furniture makers of the Georgian period, sure and they were. Master craftsmen who

Afterglow. Gin, absinthe, Amaro, ginger, lemon, orange, and nutmeg.

steel Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso Grande Taille

The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.

while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.

I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

Se volete fare gli scrittori, ci sono due esercizi fondamentali: leggere molto e scrivere molto. Non conosco stratagemmi per aggirare queste realtà, non conosco scorciatoie.