Quotes About Craftsmanship

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.