Quotes About Craftsmanship

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

We've always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments.

Costume is integral, but it clicks into place last.

NSD gave me the vision to see further and they exposed me to integrated works, right from working on the backstage to even doing the costumes.

Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.

You can understand the integrity of the filmmaker from his camera angles. You can't hide anything from it.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

My self-editing process is intense.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material can do. And so that's why I keep exploring.

I enjoy doing the thing that I find interesting really well.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.

Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.