Quotes About Craftsmanship

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

en lo más hondo de aquel empecinamiento, clamaba la rebelión del modesto fabricante artesano contra la invasora vulgaridad de los artículos de bazar.

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I've always considered myself lucky that I could mostly earn a living by doing what I love, but a bonus has been the sheer escape that comes with woodworking. What do they call it? Being in the zone or the flow?

knit a sweater of ants

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.

Druk, odbicie, to w istocie wg??bienie uzyskane za pomoc? nacisku; dzieje drukarstwa, to historia zanikania tych wg??bie?.

The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration

Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

Tricoteuse (n.) A woman who knits; specifically, a woman who during the French Revolution would attend the guillotinings and knit while the heads were rolling. What I've learned from reading the OED has not been confined to vocabulary. I've also learned a good deal about the history of the unpleasantness of the human race, including the portrait of this unsympathetic character, the knitter who attends beheadings. Tripudiate

My knitting is simple", he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.

Walter, when the fucking trousers are dry, if you give me a fucking needle and thread, I will fucking sew the hell out of them.

We have brought you lengths and lengths of crinoline and taffeta and tulle. Kimmy and I, we have made our costumes for years. We will make you such a dress. Let us make you a dress for your prince, so that we may see you married.

Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.

I'd always felt that one could read a woman's discontent in the amount of embroidery in her sitting room. It gave me a crowded and nervous feeling to sit among so much frantic stitchery.

Carve for me, O admirable artist, the pleasant cup of Spring.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

ver trabajar a un artesano me calma, me ancla en la tierra, me inspira. Me recuerda la extraordinaria importancia que en este mundo tiene el trabajo bien hecho.

Così ha cominciato a cercare frasi nei libri che ama, e a trascriverle con la penna stilografica su pezzi di quattro centimetri per due di carta paglierina che poi arrotola stretti e lega con un nastrino rosso.

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. —Quarry worker's creed

One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval cathedral builders seem to today's civil engineers, while our craftsmanship will still be honored.