Quotes About Craftsmanship

sculpture bore the relationship the truth did to falsehood... if a painter blundered, what did he do? He patched and repaired and covered over with another layer of paint. The sculptor on the contrary had to see within th marble the form that it held. He could not glue back broken parts.

Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough?

Las creencias propias se llaman religión, las de los demás se llaman superstición, lo nuestro es idioma, lo que hablan los demás son dialectos, y lo que hacen los blancos se llama arte, y lo que hacen las demás razas es artesanía.

tallados con hacha, las tejuelas «de cabeza circular», muy

maestro, an honorary title equivalent to licenciado, our designation for almost anyone who has graduated from college. With pliers and some wire, this fellow can fix anything from a lavatory to an airplane turbine: his creativity and daring are boundless.

The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

So much of the time people focus on the awesome power of Led Zeppelin, the whole 'Hammer of the Gods' thing, but John Paul Jones, probably because he was a session player, he put a lot of thought into his playing. He didn't just lumber through.

I love watches, for sure. The watch I love the most is Richard Mille because it's part of something that started from zero.

I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.