Quotes About Craftsmanship

Imagine, if you will, a watchmaker's workshop. In fact, please imagine one whether you wish to or not.

Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.

Baking was the carpentry of cooking, and I've always gravitated toward pursuits that leave considerably more room for error.

To trim, I decided, is human, which probably explains the modernists' contempt for it. Because if we're not using trim to hide our poor craftsmanship, we're using it to proclaim our fine craftsmanship—either way, sloth or pride, trim embodies the most human of failings and thereby spoils the supreme objectivity that modernists strove for.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I am not just a singer, I am a composer as well. Because I'm balancing both, it takes me longer to compose a song.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

Other artists, they write 13 songs, and hopefully one or two of them are successful singles. And the other 11, for the most part, are filler.

Anant Nag and Vishuvardhan sir are two of the best actors with whom I have worked.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.