Quotes About Craftsmanship

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

she can make

Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth.

Edit more, my mantra.

William Morris championed the movement for Arts and Crafts. He believed that when we build a house with our hands, make furniture in our workshops, make pots and paintings in our studios, plant fruits and flowers in our gardens, we transform ourselves into alchemists, turning ordinary into extraordinary.

Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Schöpft des Dichters reine Hand,. Wasser wird sich ballen. __Lied und Gebilde

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

[W]hat a severe yet master artist old Winter is.... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

The writer's life is a life of revisions.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.