Quotes About Craftsmanship

Rien en art ne doit ressembler à un accident, même le mouvement.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

A quilt will warm your body and comfort your soul.

Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul.

A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

Quilters never cut corners.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars.

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

As she [Anna] sweeps the workroom floor, as she lugs another roll of fabric or another bucket of charcoal, as she sits in the workroom beside Maria, fingers numb, breath pluming over the silk, she practices her letters on the thousand blank pages of her mind. Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds.

All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling onto the hot bulb in the lamp. That's the miracle of writing, the place you try to find--when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishing act.

an ornamental dagger

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.