Quotes About Craftsmanship

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

It was a curious box with rounded corners, made of a dark leather that had been beautifully tooled. On either side, done in gold leaf, was a striking design in the form of a double star, with each star having eight points.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,The last and greatest art—the art to blot.

To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.

Sometimes you can do a million songs, and if they're not good, you're just wasting your time.

I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

For the most part, someone who is in love with mechanical watches is not going to decide to wear a smartwatch over a mechanical watch.

I love watches, the mechanism.

I think what I love most about the brand of Hublot - obviously the quality of watches speak for themselves - but the brand is always trying to get better.

Guys only really have watches and cars as show pieces, and that's why so many men love their watches - it's our show piece, it's our style. And what I like especially about Hublot is the variety.

I love an Omega. I think they're great watches.

I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.