Quotes About Craftsmanship

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

A carpenter is known by his chips.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I hardly think you'd be comfortable in this Succah for ever and ever," Papa said. "But I know just how you feel. It is nice to be making with your own hands the thing you are going to use. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll leave the little house up for about a month after the holiday so you can enjoy it." "Oh, Papa," the children all cried, "how wonderful!

God's response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

He had taken up woodworking, there was sawdust on his soft worn trousers; his wife had wrapped a scarf around his neck and kissed his cheek as he went out.

yellow frock with puffed sleeves and an empire waist had seemed elegant on the pattern envelope. She didn't care much for the finished product, but having spent too much time tracing the pattern and reinforcing buttonholes, she couldn't just throw it away because of a puckered neckline and an unflattering cut.

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

The hand's dexterity is the physical manifestation of the mind's ingenuity,

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

In this era of digital special effects, I think it's good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water and clay, to dry it in the air from the sun. This brings you back to the element of life.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.