Quotes About Craftsmanship

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

My mom is a sculptress.

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

Don't worry about the money. Love the process.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.