Quotes About Craftsmanship

If you do it right, it will last forever.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Every little job counts. Design counts.

Never design anything that cannot be made.

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.