Quotes About Craftsmanship

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

A good coffee should be roasted gently, in small batches, and lightly.

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will paint in pleasing colors." "How do you know which colors to use?" I asked. "There are instructions for each item on your workstation.

No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

If you really look at something, you can almost always tell what type of wage structure the person who made it was on.

You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

Art is the expression of man's pleasure in labour.

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Vi è stato un tempo nel quale il mistero e la meraviglia dell'artigianato avevano un giusto riconoscimento nel mondo, un tempo nel quale l'immaginazione e la fantasia si mescolavano a tutti gli oggetti prodotti dall'uomo; e in questi giorni ogni artigiano era quel che oggi definiremmo un artista.

Il rimedio è nelle mani degli artigiani, che su queste materie non sono ignoranti come la gente comune, e che non tendono a essere avari e a starsene isolati come i proletari delle manifatture o i mediatori; è a loro che competono l'onore e l'onere di educare il pubblico, ed essi recano in sé i semi dell'ordine e dell'organizzazione che renderanno più facile il loro compito.

En résumé, [à toutes les époque], le meilleur artiste restait encore un artisan, le plus humble des artisans était un artiste.

Jak mam co? do napisania, to staram si? pisa? jak najm?drzej i ?eby to by?o jak najlepsze. A to, czy ja jestem Polak podczas pisania, czy jestem Chi?czyk, to do mnie nie nale?y. Ja jestem cz?owiek i moj? robot? musz? zrobi? jak najlepiej.

He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful letters to your friends, the most lucid reports to your superiors, you will never produce a poem or a play or a story. You may make a journalist but you will never make an author.

A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said to his apprentice, who was admiring the oak: "This is a useless tree. If you wanted to make a ship, it would soon rot; if you wanted to make tools, they would break. You can't do anything useful with this tree, and that's why it has become so old.

A quilt may take a year, but if you just keep doing it, you get a quilt.

Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn't a hot dog eating contest. You're not being judged on how much you write but rather, how well you do it. Sure, there's a balance — you have to be generative, have to be swimming forward lest you sink like a stone and find remora fish mating inside your rectum. But generation and creativity should not come at the cost of quality. Give your stories and your career the time and patience it needs.

Esas botas están hechas por artesanos del clan- diría su madre-. ¿Sabes lo que cuestan?¿Piensas que me sobra el dinero? El que no hubiera tenido que pagarlas carecía de importancia.