Quotes About Craftsmanship

Have you always used a pen?" "No," I said, "only when I want to write something worth reading.

During those long months of beginning my Cantos on Heaven's Gate, I discovered that the difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.

If one is to steal, steal from the forgotten masters." The

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

The first principle of the exploitive mind is to divide and conquer. And surely there has never been a people more ominously and painfully divided than we are—both against each other and within ourselves. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. Its stock in trade in politics is to sell despotism and avarice as freedom and democracy.

The Carpenter Shop

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

As the skills of production decline, the skills of responsibility perish.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

What is the effect on quantity of persuading a producer to produce an inferior product? What, in other words, is the relation of pride or craftsmanship to abundance? That is another question the "agribusinessmen" and their academic collaborators do not ask. They do not ask it because they are afraid of the answer: The preserver of abundance is excellence.

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did have a lot of time to be creative by myself and with my parents.

The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

Praise is the practice of Art.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.

In writing, you must kill your darlings.

If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

CiteÅŸte, citeÅŸte, citeÅŸte. CiteÅŸte totul – gunoi, clasicii, r?ii ÅŸi bunii, ÅŸi vezi cum scriu. La fel ca un tâmplar care lucreaz? ca ucenic ÅŸi îÅŸi studiaz? maestrul. CiteÅŸte! Vei absorbi asta. Apoi scrie. Dac? ai scris ceva bun, vei afla. Dac? nu, arunc? ce-ai scris pe fereastr?.