Quotes About Craftsmanship

El arte siempre tiene al tiempo de su parte

There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.

Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy to make.

I know of few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a plump newborn baby.

sk?pstu padar?šanas dom?tas amatieriem un diletantiem ieš??cen?s. ?stu sievieti iekaro mazpamaz?m. T? ir t?r? psiholo?ija, t?pat k? laba v?ršu c??a ar?n?.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Man is a tool-making animal

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

All men are creative but few are artists.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.