Quotes About Craftsmanship

I'm not even going to lie - when I'm in the studio, I'm not like, 'Alright, let me make a hit.' I just try to make good music to the best of my ability.

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

A lot of the jewelers - not that they're not good people - but they're hustlers.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

In music, if somebody makes a good song, you want to be in that category and make the good songs too. It may not even be a competition thing, it's just a thing to keep your skills up type of thing.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

I want to become a very good writer.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

Si vous parcouriez la France, que de merveilles vous admireriez dans l'industrie des hommes, à côté des beautés de la nature!

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.