Quotes About Craftsmanship

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Ich bin ein fleißiger Mosaikarbeiter, kein Dichter.

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

I have an obsession for quality.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

I basically try to give people top quality.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I believe in quality over quantity.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.