Quotes About Craftsmanship

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

Working with Mike Leigh is a process of distillation.

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.

I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.

Minor writers think style is all.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Work—work—work Till the brain begins to swim; Work—work—work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream!

He worked, not like a man who works that he may live; but as one who is bent on doing nothing but work; having no regard for himself as a human being but only as a creator; moving about grey and unobtrusive among his fellows like an actor without his make-up, who counts for nothing as soon as he stops representing something else.

The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.

How does it happen that even today a couple of ordinary French stonemasons, or a carpenter and his apprentice, can put up a dovecote or a barn that has more architectural perfection than the piles of eclectic stupidity that grow up at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campuses of American universities?

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.

True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.

he understands that taking more pains to create something can add to the sheer pleasure of offering it up to the universe.

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Los músicos adoran las melodías que componen, los escritores natos aman las palabras, a los bailarines les encanta el movimiento, los matemáticos aman los números, los empresarios adoran cerrar negocios, los grandes profesores aman la enseñanza.

Even if there was no long-term economic impact from careful coding I would still choose to write the best code I could.

In barbaric lands like the Americas, writers produced their best work before learning the craft, and nine times out of ten, their book was the strongest, as well as being, in general, the only one they wrote.

Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music, painting, drawing, cinema...