Quotes About Craftsmanship

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

Handle your tools without mittens.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.