Quotes About Craftsmanship

Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.

HER FINGERS RAN LIGHTLY over the beams, stroked the threads of the weft like a stable master greeting a prize horse. She asked no questions; she seemed to absorb the loom's workings by touch alone.

I could have sat and worked awhile, but the change of hands would show in the cloth.

I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unravelling them again at night, making nothing.

When I was a boy and everyone played at wrestling monsters like Heracles, I dreamed of being Daedalus instead. It seemed the greater genius to look at raw wood and iron, and imagine marvels.

I am a little world made cunningly.

Güzel resim yapma bilgisi, akademik ve teknik anlamda, bir ressamda aranan niteliklerin sonuncusudur.

I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

Mary's tapestries were the glory of her collection. She had some twenty complete sets

Don't concentrate on becoming a better humor writer, just concentrate on being the best writer that you can become. If you're funny, the work will end up being funny. And if you're not funny, the work will still end up being good. Concentrate on being the most honest writer you can be, and let everything else follow--because it will.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don't know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.

Perhaps it is the realization that I am going to take this toilet's virginity with a fury and savagery that is an abomination to its delicate craftsmanship and quality.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.