Quotes About Craftsmanship

La mano y la vista hacen al artista.

Working with flint, he had often caused small sparks, but he thought of it as the living spirit of the stone released as part of the process.

Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

The phrasing didn't work as well.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.