Quotes About Craftsmanship

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor's hand can break the spell to free the figures.

The best of artists hath no art to show, Which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include, To break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Nyro's plodding craftsmanship wasn't out of step with that of her most sophisticated male peers, including the Beatles, who were tackling projects that were long both in nature and time of execution. The Beatles set the standard for such experimentation with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band—considered by many to be the first concept album—

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Every good author has a trick, a great and mighty trick.

We may not see how our frayed, smelly imperfections can be redesigned, but God certainly can. He believes that our imperfections are the raw materials for crafting something extraordinary.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

It takes us nine months, from concept to finished product, to make a single episode of The Simpsons.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

It is a foreign economy car, and while I won't mention its brand name, I will say that it is made by a people renowned for their craftsmanship, philosophers, musicians and bratwurst.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

It's possible that the college prizes misled me to believe that I could publish a novel immediately after quitting the law. However, the more I studied fiction, the more I realized that writing novels required rigorous discipline and mastery, no different than the study of engineering or classical sculpture. I wanted to get formal training.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

To both Nakashima and Yanagi, the beauty of something that was regular, and yet not actually regular, was only attainable by someone who had achieved a state of non-intellect, of trusting the materials, trusting the tools, and remaining essentially hidden as a maker. Repetition leads to the forgetfulness of the self, and by transcending the self, the artisan allows the work to 'do itself'.

The affairs of the people have gone to ruin. See, all the craftsmen, they do not work, The land's foes have despoiled its craftsmen.

Fairacre children could handle tools, and had the plodding unhurried methods of the countryman that produce amazing results. Here was the perfect medium for their inborn skill. The golden sand was turned, raked, piled, patted and ornamented with shells and seaweed,

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Les gens de qualite savent tout sans avoir jamais rien appris. Les choses ne valent que ce qu'on les fait valoir. J'ai une delicatesse furieuse pour tout ce que je porte; et jusqu'a mes chaussettes, je ne puis rien souffrir que ne soit de la bonne ouvriere.

Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.

Society is ruled by the harsh maxim: "production for the sake of production." The decline from craftsman to worker, from an active to an increasingly passive personality, is completed by man qua consumer—an economic entity whose tastes, values, thoughts and sensibilities are engineered by bureaucratic "teams" in "think tanks." Man, standardized by machines, is reduced to a machine.