Quotes About Craftsmanship

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.