Quotes About Craftsmanship

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

What I as a man want is to be able, some time in my life, to do something well?to do some piece of work finely just for the sake of doing it?to know the feel of a thing growing into a life of its own under my fingers, eh?

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own

Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.

industry without art is brutality".

Beatrice Warde: "La copa de cristal o por qué el arte de la impresión debe ser invisible". Su teoría, sencilla pero contundente, defendía que incluso el mejor tipo de letra existía solo con el objetivo de comunicar una idea. No había sido creado para ser visto y mucho menos para ser admirado. Cuanto más visible la fuente o la maquetación de una página, peor la tipografía. (...) Cuanto más transparente el cristal, más se apreciará su contenido.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.