Quotes About Craftsmanship

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make