Quotes About Craftsmanship

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

For the last thirty years, however, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the artisan. Nowadays we have products, we no longer have works.

Otherwise a sculptor could save himself the trouble and take a cast of a woman! And yet, try making a cast of your mistress's hand and

When, on his return to Lud-in-the-Mist, he had been twitted for having wasted so much time on such an unworthy object, he had answered that a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other; adding that a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel's wedding or a merchant's funeral.

As in painting, so in poetry.

The scrotum of a buck, tanned with the hair on, makes a good tobacco-pouch.

When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing—you have its skeleton.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

There is no purpose in hammering cold iron.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Intelectual: alguien que no conoce oficio.

En el domino de la Comprensión Mayor, el taller se desmantela cuando el trabajo ha terminado.

No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.

Si quieres convertirte en calígrafo, escribe, escribe y escribe.

El hábil artesano utiliza el mismo hierro para hacer una herradura que cuando construye un bruñido espejo para el rey.