Quotes About Craftsmanship

The technical afterthoughts of a truly great one can appear to be divine inspiration to the lesser artist. When

La buena prosa debe ser tan precisa como el verso, e igual de sonora" escribe Flaubert.

pero aun así pude asistir al mejor espectáculo del mundo: una persona haciendo bien su oficio.

He opened the box and saw a tiny cake shaped like a bird's nest in three small round layers of tender, browned-butter vanilla cake with an apricot filling. A "nest" border of piped rum and mocha buttercream enclosed a clutch of pale blue marzipan eggs and a sugar-paste feather. The complicated yin and yang of rum and mocha, the "everybody loves" vanilla, Mr. Social white chocolate, tart and witty apricot, and artistic marzipan- all said "Gavin" to me.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And you edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ARTHUR PLOTNIK

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it. You have to get involved and learn as much as possible and go for it.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.