Quotes About Craftsmanship

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.