Quotes About Craftsmanship

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Easel painting means small painting.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

There's something very old-fashioned and luxurious to have a pair of pants and jacket made to your needs and measurements.