Quotes About Craftsmanship

Write the best story you can and throw out all the good lines.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.

He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.

Laurel had watched him prune. Holding the shears in both hands, he performed a sort of weighty sarabande, with a lop for this side, then a lop for the other side, as though he were bowing to his partner, and left the bush looking like a puzzle.

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

The inglorious arts of peace.

Graft at your craft!

?le ci to idzie, Tzara. Nie umiesz. ?eby kogo? dobrze zniewa?y?, nie wystarczy przemo?ne pragnienie, entuzjazm ani zapa?. Konieczny jest warsztat.

Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

1. Rolnictwo karmi, ubiera, chroni od ch?odu, dostarcza rozrywki i wspomaga sztuk?. – Z t? rozrywk? i sztuk? troch? przesadzi?e?. – A gorza?k? z czego si? p?dzi? – Rozumiem.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

My love for pottery started completely by chance when a good friend of mine recommended I take a class. When I sat down at a pottery wheel, it was like love at first sight. It was so deeply meditative, and I felt connected right away.

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that's an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.