Quotes About Craftsmanship

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

I try to conceal art with art.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.