Quotes About Craftsmanship

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

If you're a roofer, you might be tempted to say "you'll get a good roof," but if you add the "which results in" question at the end of your statement, maybe you can take it even further.

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

But he knew absolutely everything—work that other people didn't know how to do or care to learn anymore—it hangs by a thread, this trade, generation to generation.

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. MAX LUCADO

S. T. Dupont lighter

Traditional American handicraft was employed in the wall's construction, and so most of it had collapsed.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

In his workshop, he had a can of colle de bois, or wood glue, that he kept hot on a small wood stove. It had an awful smell. He told me it was made from mistletoe berries. I was fascinated by the idea of those little white berries turning into that darkish, thick, sticky, and smelly mixture.

BERNIE BRILLSTEIN: O'Donoghue had the best line about the Muppets. He used to say, "I won't write for felt.

God has worker's hands. Just remember—angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.

Le botteghe degli stampatori mi hanno sempre attirato. I libri hanno un fascino particolare.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

We made our own fish-lines, twisting and double-twisting and triple-twisting the silk, ganged on the hooks, bought the long bamboo poles and cut them up, and out of them made our own jointed fishing-rods. We always cleaned our fish ourselves. It was the law of the sport that our fun should not make work for others which we ourselves could do.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Among the oldest craft gilds in Germany were the weavers of Mainz (1099), the fishermen of Worms (1106), the shoemakers of Würzburg (1128), the makers of bed-ticks and the turners of Cologne, and the cobblers, tailors, and painters of Magdeburg from the twelfth century.

time: It is beautiful when the Master chisels.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

No veo otro camino para que los peluqueros invadieran, como tanto lo han deseado, el oficio de aquéllos (los zapateros), logrando hacer brillar su arte en ambos extremos anatómicos. Por otra parte, el peinado es una manera de pensar por fuera de la cabeza, por lo que debieran sentirse orgullosos los artesanos que tomando la navaja al dejar las tijeras, nos tienen tan acobardados y sitiados como para despojarnos de nuestro cabello sin protesta ni intento de fuga

Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.

This was how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun.

How do you bear it?" he said. My eyes gave off a faint light, and by it I could see his face, It was a surprise to realise that he was waiting for an answer. I believed I had one. I thought of another dim room, with another prisoner. He had been a craftsman also. On the foundation of his knowledge, civilisation had been built. Prometheus' words deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time. "We bear it as best we can," I said.