Quotes About Craftsmanship

I like people who are masters of their craft.

With 'Korra' we've really taken a lot of time to craft it. We're aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work.

Anyone who loves the game is going to be sensitive about their craft.

I want to be excellent at my craft.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

We are not training crafts people as we used to do. We're not giving people the chance to learn. Education has become very academic. There's nothing wrong with academic for some people, but not all.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

Cooking is creating emotion.

The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.

Craft is part of the creative process.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

When a customer sits inside the car, then they have to have the feeling that it's an Audi - whether it's the leatherwork or the bodywork. All these things must be typically Audi.

My goal is to teach what chocolate is. I don't think my customers understand what it takes to make chocolates.

Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.