Quotes About Craftsmanship

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

There is something about someone making a fantastic sandwich, taking care to spread lots of mayo all the way to the edges. Making sure every bite has a bit of everything in it. There's something special about that.

A great pair of tweezers should feel like they are vibrating as if they have a spring. If the tweezers don't do that, they won't work well at all.

Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.