Quotes About Craftsmanship

A rose on a steel stem

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

Great poets are great copy editors.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

The beautiful thing about Fashion-forward Accessories is... It's pulchritudinous does not simply fall into any one category; yet its alluring craftsmanship is respectfully categorized in numerous categories.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Can you be sure?" "I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.

Anybody can buy. It takes an artist to shop.

I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way. Language is a window, and if the window is clean, you shouldn't be aware you're looking through glass.

There's an art in every labour.

Professional chefs aren't the only ones who get to wear an apron to work. There are welders and farriers and fishmongers and printers and grocery clerks and artists and florists and bakers and housekeepers and lab technicians and carpenters, to name a few who call an apron their uniform, and lucky them. How nice to be able to shift gears from leisure to work and back again with the tug of an apron string.