Quotes About Craftsmanship

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

I don't tackle a whole lot of electrical, but I could build you an entire house. I worked as a professional framer, as a tile-setter, did a lot of my own plumbing; I taught myself.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I think they inject stories with color and flavor, providing a tactile experience.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Lardini is my go-to tailor. They work with me on a lot of personal things, which is nice.

Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

Sportswear is great, but not every designer can do tailored.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.