Quotes About Craftsmanship

nostalgia such as can be known only by those who remember the days of hot metal typesetting and noisy composing rooms

It's easy to make bricks, but making houses requires far more than throwing a pile of bricks in the air.

These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking, and otherwise separating the pliant inner fiber, or bast, from its woodier stem. It is striking to think that when we heckle a speaker today we use a term that recalls the preparation of flax from the early Middle Ages.

Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

Then there's the trap of easy rhymes.

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

he never did like to talk about it all that much 'It's my work,' he'd say, 'and I do it for pay

How good is your writing? The best idea in the world has to be supported by solid writing.

The CIA never figured out conclusively who wrote and crafted Kim's letters to Trump. They were masterpieces. The analysts marveled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to Trump's sense of grandiosity and being center stage in history.

Before you write one shot, one word of dialogue on paper, you must know four things: your ending, your beginning, Plot Point I, and Plot Point II.

Even the apostles were tentmakers...

But will do 5 pages a day until plodding I catch up. Use words as poet uses words. That is it! Gulley Jimson is an artist with words, too – – – or, rather Joyce Cary is. But I must be a word-artist. The

Having top-of-the-line tools is imperative, but being the top-notch carpenter who masterfully uses those tools is even more critical.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which is a task in the same sense as the making of an efficient engine or the turning of a jug or a table-leg.

He has artistry, he repeated. Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.

Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pulóver está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.

Me pregunto que hubiera hecho Irene sin el tejido. Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pullover está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.

we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.

Un artesano que desempeña perfectamente su función es indudablemente superior a un rey que se desvíe y no esté a la altura de su dignidad