Quotes About Craftsmanship

The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

skillful trade.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you can't make it good,at least make it look good.

Vermont breweries are symbols of everything that's right and good about a free local economy, where neighbors make things for neighbors - and so they actually bother to give them some taste, body, and character.

Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's head on the wall.

My tapestries are woven on a computer-controlled loom. I design them on Photoshop. I recently did some digitally-routed woodcuts because I wanted the woodcut look, but I didn't want to get the chisels out.

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement.

Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

I come from a family of craftsmen. We like to make things with our hands. Better than the pleasure of making money is the pleasure of making the product and saying, 'Wow. I did that.' I couldn't see myself doing anything other than making good things to eat.

I especially have very fond memories associated with the 10th day of Dassera. My friends and I would meet up and build this huge 7-feet-tall Ravan, which we'd burn at around sunset in our colony. And this was no ordinary Ravan. We'd actually sit and hand-mix the contents of glue and glitter with the dough and wrap it around newspaper for the base.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.