Quotes About Craftsmanship

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Serious writing must nowadays be written for the sake of the art. The condition I describe is not extraordinary. Certain scientists, philosophers, historians, and many mathematicians do the same, advancing their causes as they can. One must be satisfied with that.

All gardening is landscape painting.

with hand-painted flowers.

He'd been raised in the hills of the Ozarks, where making corn liquor was a time-honored tradition

superb group of mind-mindful novelists at work today: Philip Roth and Martin Amis, Cynthia Ozick, Jenny Erpenbeck, John Banville, V. S. Naipaul, and J. M. Coetzee—to start.

To keep your human door sturdy, be careful not to cut within 3" of the bottom.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

The System of Motorcycle Control (the British System) is the basis for what is called roadcraft, the science of becoming an accomplished motorcyclist. The implication is that motorcycling is a craft worthy of mastering, not simply a fun thing you attempt by bump and feel.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

the exceptional fromagerie Laurent Dubois,

Da Rosa for pots of Christine Ferber's confitures and oval pats of handmade butter from Jean-Yves Bordier. She must

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?" Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir." Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.