Quotes About Craftsmanship

When life starts to unravel, get your knitting sticks out and stitch it up.

Even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work.

and the differences between rolling pasta by hand versus with a machine.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.

I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

There are no secret formulas for success in anything. work hard, be nice to people, study your craft, and stay true to who you are...

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I used to be a watchmaker. It was a great job and I made my own hours.