Quotes About Craftsmanship

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.