Quotes About Craftsmanship

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

I am observing that to become an actor, people say, they want to join gym. Why join a gym? Why don't you join an institute where they teach you how to act?

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.

Occasionally, as an actor, you're not... Sometimes, at least for me, I'm not fully in the groove until the second or third take, in which I would not want to just stop. If it's a scene that takes a lot of work and time, sometimes the scene gets better with time, and sometimes it gets exhausted. I think it just depends on the scene.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright and sharp or tell by a sniff of the breeze what the day would bring or with a glance when a grape was sweet and ready.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse upon it.

Build slow and sure; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. — Longfellow.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y