Quotes About Craftsmanship

We always use resin instead of polyurethane, even though it takes more work and is in places where it can't be seen, because resin tends to be more UV stable than urethane.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to say "this song doesn't work."

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.