Quotes About Craftsmanship

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

I think of poetry and how I see it as just a raw block of stone ready to be shaped, that way words are never a horrible limit to me, just tools to shape.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

En arte, el manierismo concede tanta importancia o más a la manera cómo está hecha la obra que a la esencia de lo que se expresa. También aquí, la acepción del término "forma" como "manera" o "modo" -y por extensión, incluso "moda"1- designa cosas exteriores.

Ein Nachteil der maschinellen Aufschreibesysteme ist natürlich der sinkende Respekt vor dem einzelnen Wort. Früher, als man noch auf Marmor angewiesen war, um seine Gedanken zu verewigen, ging man sparsamer damit um. Um einen Roman in Marmor zu meißeln, müßte man schon ein Heer von Sklaven beschäftigen.

The artist's mind and eye, as the poet's, were subjected to rigorous training. Henceforth, the artist's hands were to create the objects projected from his mind, after its process of selection and alchemy.

Paladin had nothing to say to that, so he decided to pry. "What do you do?" "I make custom penises.

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.

Out of used furniture she made a tree.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Nunca he escrito para que sea bonito o para hacer una frase bella. Lo que yo escojo es la frase justa

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

There are lots of professions where your social following is key now. But chasing followers is strange to me. I'd rather focus on the work.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.