Quotes About Craftsmanship

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

Well... you know, I love motorcycles. They're just beautiful, and there's a certain craftsmanship in older bikes, older Triumphs or BSAs or Norton. I'm just very attracted to it.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.