Quotes About Craftsmanship

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

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Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

His bed needed all the good craftsmanship that had gone into its making to keep it from splitting asunder as he would grip one of its beams to heave at the oar of his sleep; and he often said that there was no happiness in the world to compare with that of awakening from such a dream and finding it to be only a dream. Three

Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

My aunty used to dress windows on Bond Street in the 60s and my family were furriers by trade, talking to me about dress making, quality, the 60s and shops in general throughout most of my childhood.

The wine business is intense. It's not just bottle it and sell it. It's really a process.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves.

My food is about texture and technique.