Quotes About Craftsmanship

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.