Quotes About Craftsmanship

Should've stayed a carpenter," he whispered. But the sword had been the easier choice. To work wood you need all manner of tools–chisels and saws, axes great and small, nails and hammers, awls and planes. To be a killer you just need two. A blade and the will.

Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.

So lange ihr in euren Schulen mit Leuten vom Handwerke nach der vorgeschriebenen Form darüber redet , täuscht euch beide eben diese vorgeschriebene Form , und wenn ihr nur über sie einig seyd , schenkt ihr euch gegenseitig manche Frage, deren deutliche Beantwortung euch beschwerlich fallen dürfte.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

In art the best is good enough.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

My life is about building and working and wrenching on some cars.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

Craft the finest arrow Forage jungles for straightest shaft Forge sharpest head of glass Pluck feathers of the wisest crow Without the simplest archer and bow Without a mark that's true Useless Craft the finest vessel Fell the jungle's strongest mast Build the world's mightiest hull A flag the crown of all seas you can sew Without the simplest oarsmen to row Without a port that's true Useless

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

bad as it seemed. Gwendolyn stirred, her eyelids opening a crack. "What happened?" she asked, her words slurred. "I'm not sure," said Annie. She glanced at the jeweled object still held in her sister's hand. Although Gwendolyn hadn't recognized it, Annie knew what it was right away. Someone had crafted a tiny model

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

It is not their standard of craftmanship which is different from ours, but their ideas.

He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

Sonra k?z bir kilim dürmü? s?rtl?yor. Kilim onun eviymi?.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add the accent of nature.