Quotes About Craftsmanship

Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade. Good! said the Baron, sitting in his hall, But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

They knew how to make a spoon that was exactly the right shape to hold in your hand and put into your mouth, even if your hands were still small and your mouth was little.

though. Here, besides books like Langer's Grow It!, Livingston's Guide to Edible Plants and Animals, Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living and of course Seymour's Forgotten Arts and Crafts—their

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Muscle is good, but craft is better

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.

This was true magic, the making and unmaking of the world with paper and ink.

I let the story out slowly; I knew from all the reading I'd done that was the best way to tell a tale, start far away from the center, but know where that center is at all times.

never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important

Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

tribal cloth, the magic of which is that as long as it is woven, the tribe exists; as long as you know how to weave it, so do you.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

Chasing the dragon is an art, you know – it must be done properly.