Quotes About Craftsmanship

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.