Quotes About Craftsmanship

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

If I focus solely on developing new material, then I can get a new 45 minute to an hour in about six months. Then I'll work on it and work on it and can make it killer within another six months or so.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

There's something about 'Free Solo' that I look at the craft around it, and I'm really proud.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I collect hotel keys. I hope to make something out of them someday. It would be cool to make a bar at my house and, like, the bar is all the hotel keys: lay them down and put glass over them. Or maybe even a coffee table.

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!

The art of creating tools is essentially superhuman-either divine or demoniac (for the smith also forges murderous weapons).

Nothing is) really as good as a meal made 'from scratch' or a picture created with your own hands.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

A book is a work of art. (Again

Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

There's only a yard of stuff in it, worth a pound if that, I went on, horrified by the waste of money. And how many yards of canvas in a Fragonard? And how much do planks of wood cost, or the skin of a darling goat before some clever person turns them into commodes and morocco? Art is more than yards, just as one is more than flesh and bones.

No matter how good the message may be, it will be useless unless it is done well (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

While Mar-A-Lago was later categorized as an example of Hispano-Mooresque architecture because of its stucco exterior, antique tile embellishments, rambling outbuildings and red-tiled roof, the estate was actually a carefully crafted amalgam of architectural styles blended together to display the most admirable features of several European countries.