Quotes About Craftsmanship

She was dressed in a rainbow-striped jumper that looked as if it had been crocheted for a gorilla by a gorilla.

In truth what had drawn my eye was the rear view of a young man stripped to the waist and plying an adze along a beam. I could not help but admire his muscled back.

but there was something so significant about being able to make a gorgeous item of clothing from almost raw materials. It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey.

The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air.

Then pointing to Edwin's shoes, he said: "Those look skilfully crafted. Did you make them yourself?" "Master Baldwin made them for me. The most skilled shoemaker in the village

You didn't fail me. You fed me and took care of me ... But there was something more important than all that, he thought. What Tom had given him was nothing so commonplace as food and shelter. Tom had given him something unique, something no other man had to give, something even his own father could not have given him: something that was a passion, a skill, an art, and a way of life. You gave me a cathedral...

C'est un bon artisan, laissa tomber sieur Gérald sur le ton qu'aurait pris un maquignon pour affirmer qu'en raison de leur petite taille, les poneys étaient les montures les mieux adaptées aux femmes.

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He would miss Pa, who all his life had told him things he would never forget, such as: "No matter how well you scarf two planks together, the joint is always the weakest part.

Dios no haría un cuchillo con papel.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

I think my power comes from my hands.

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,