Quotes About Craftsmanship

Nicht Philosophen, sondern Laubsäger und Briefmarkensammler bilden das Rückgrat der Gesellschaft.

Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Da se napiše loša knjiga, treba isto toliko truda kao i da se napiše dobra.

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

He always clothed his thoughts in elegant expressions, for a word said well was akin to a gold apple in a goblet of transparent sardonyx, and that was why the words of the wise were as sharp as needles, and as strong as nails, and their creators were all from the same stock.

El estilo es de unos pocos. Surge de una intimidad muy elevada y misteriosa con un material concreto. No se puede enseñar, se posee. Es un acontecimiento.

He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.

Love of what you do is unmistakable in the care with which you do it, whether it is seen in the way in which an artist applies the final touch of paint to his canvas, a master carpenter sands the last touch of roughness from the surface of the wood, or a woman making pasta kneads the compliant dough, draws it out, coaxes it to the right consistency.

Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them." "I don't," said William.

Creation is the miniature of creation

He'd found Brodie hand sanding the hull of a sailboat he was in the early stages of building, using an old-fashioned hand lathe on the wood. Cooper had questioned him about it, surprised that he wasn't building the boat up in the big boathouses on land, and using something more high-tech to get the job done. Brodie had just smiled and told him that some boats required a more personal touch and a more personal space. Cooper understood that. Some women needed the same.

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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Learn what good work is, imitate it studiously, and do that over time.

When you write a page and delete the whole thing, there is a sense in which it is not deleted. The better writer who remained behind is still there.

Good writing is like a great cathedral. The echoes are lovely.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.