Quotes About Craftsmanship

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Typography exists to honor content.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

The 'machine-gun' approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.