Quotes About Craftsmanship

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

The artist became a subcreator.

and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world – this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.

Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it?

Mais on ne saurait mieux le faire qu'avec une

Que sobre todo objeto hay tres artes distintas: la de utilizarlo, la de fabricarlo y la de imitarlo?

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.

Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.

He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap.

Here was leisure measured in days, in weeks; here, in these expensive and lovingly crafted boats, was leisure measured in month-long sailing excursions up and down the coast, so much leisure that it made Lem break into a sweat, made him want to scream.

Tiffany lamps and the Japanese gold-lacquer boxes that dated from the Taish? through the Heisei eras

Color is a feeling for me. I work by feeling! —Tina, Freia Handpaint Yarns

Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.