Quotes About Craftsmanship

But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us.

I am like a goldsmith hammering day and night Just so I can extend pain Into a gold ornament as thin as a cicada's wing Xi Murong

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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork," he notes

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it.

The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself.

It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. "He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn't see.

There was never a good knife made of bad steel 

producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs

I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was really important was the care that was put into it.

No one would ever see them, but the members of the team knew that their signatures were inside, just as they knew that the circuit board was laid out as elegantly as possible.

Like most artist-craftsmen of his era, he did not sign his work.

From his father, Jobs had learned that a hallmark of a passionate craftmanship is making sure that even the aspects that remain hidden are done beautifully. A great carpenter isn't gonna use a lousy wood for the back of the cabinet even though nobody's gonna see it.

sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery." Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the engineers

Jobs's father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. He rejected the initial design because the lines were not straight enough.

Ive grew up in Chingford, a town on the northeast edge of London. His father was a silversmith who taught at the local college. "He's a fantastic craftsman," Ive recalled. "His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.

Hey, if we're going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.

Según su padre, era importante darles un buen acabado a las partes traseras de los armarios y las vallas, aunque fueran a quedar ocultas. «Le encantaba hacer bien las cosas. Se preocupaba incluso por las partes que no se podían ver».

Su obsesión es la pasión por el producto, la pasión por la perfección del producto

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.