Quotes About Craftsmanship

My imaginations are as foulAs Vulcan's stithy.

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting

Next to his pecker, a picker's fingers are his most precious body parts.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

doing things well is generally more important than doing them quickly.

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them

Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

I'm coding an artisanal consciousness.

furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without

Nearly everyone I know under forty (including myself) it now seems is some combination of amateur photographer, DJ, filmmaker, writer, and craft maker of some sort. Much of what's produced is good, but few devote the necessary time to make something truly great.

Further editing deepens a story.

The key is in the craft.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Art is an imagination, crafted over innocent dreams and vibrant integrity.

Give a poet a pen

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.