Quotes About Craftsmanship

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...

The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.