Quotes About Craftsmanship

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

There's also 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.

I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I'm studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.

The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.

I like to make stuff and I try to stay busy.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.