Quotes About Craftsmanship

Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator

It was no surprise that her sewing was so uneven, for to make even stiches the seamstress herself had to be steady. Abigail tended to hunch over her patchwork, her fingers and thread a snarl, and sew a few stiches before abandoning it to look down the road towards the houses near the general store, or to get up for a drink of water.

Appliqué is very popular here. To my eye it has a facile look about it, as if the maker has not thought hard but simply cut out whatever shape has taken her fancy and sewn it on to a bit of cloth. Piecing together patchwork, on the other hand, requires more consideration and more accuracy; that is why I like it, though some say it is too cold and geometrical.

Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.

She attributed her own fine sewing to the prolonged periods of silence at Meeting; these had made her thoughts level and her hand steady, which was reflected in her even stitching.

Good programming is not born from mere technical competence. I've seen highly intellectual programmers who can produce intense and impressive algorithms, who know their language standard by heart, but who write the most awful code.

I design some of my own clothes now.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum--carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.

The Lord done real good when he crafted Miss Adelaide Cowherd.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

There's something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

Dans les ateliers de réparation provisoires, les hommes tapaient du marteau, actionnaient les soufflets et forgeaient le fer pour les roues des verdines.

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Everybody can tell a story but it is different to create a real book, a real literary text that has several voices in itself and that breathes with its own mouth and has its own lungs and looks toward its own body. To create that body you have to start out with a stone and stones do not have lungs or air in themselves.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

That's what Sunny was beaming about. This was what she loved—the process of making art even more than the final product.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

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the only manuscripts in her entire career that had required no editing, "no repeat absolutely no editorial suggestions from me or anyone else," were Wilder's and E. B. White's.

A dainty rogue in porcelain

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

Nothing holds an edge like Valyrian steel,

History is man-made, like this pair of shoes, though it pinches more.