Quotes About Craftsmanship

When in doubt, use Caslon.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Each artwork requires its own design

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

I think 'The Americans' is exceptional on every level.

I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.