Quotes About Craftsmanship

As the post said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working .

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

El único problema sería, tal vez, que la alfarería se haga a corto plazo por computadora o por internet. O por robots. Que Dios (que no existe) nos asista».

She thought about that word "capture," how it put a writer on par with a fur trapper or big-game hunter, and how it implied that stories were whole and roaming around loose in the world, and a writer's job was to catch them.

I won't gush about his appearance, except to say that he was beautiful in the way certain handcrafted wooden objects are beautiful—so seamless, smooth, curved, lustrous, so fully realized and self-contained that it only strikes you seconds later and with the force of a lightning bolt: "Oh my God, that's a chair!" At which point, you sit down and want to stay forever.

This was something few followers of fashion ever saw – the long hours of hard, highly skilled labour that went into the production of each item of haute couture. Beauty came at the cost of tired eyes, aching shoulders and worn fingers.

FOR NEARLY THIRTY years, the One who had crafted the universe with His voice crafted furniture with His hands. And He was good at what He did—no crooked table legs ever came out of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth.1 But Jesus was more than a master carpenter. He was also God incognito. His miraculous powers rank as history's best-kept secret for nearly three decades, but all that changed the day water blushed in the face of its Creator.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

I'm much more than a writer – I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.