Quotes About Craftsmanship

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

Art should be born from the materials.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

timeliness is an enemy to art.