Quotes About Craftsmanship

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Anybody can make a thousand dollar garment because you find the finest fabric and the finest mills, and you churn that out.

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Using our hands to think about a problem, such as cleaning, mending, cooking, knitting or gardening, where the end goal is meaningful, is like taking a mental health vitamin, Lambert concludes. Any useful task that engages your hands gives you a sense of control over your environment and is, ultimately, very empowering. Craftwork brings exactly the same brain rewards.

Anything you can make out of a tree you can make out of hemp.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

good omelettes are still hard to come by. They shouldn't be made in a hurried or slapdash manner. Some thought has to go into an omelette. And a little love too. It's like writing a book—done much better with some feeling!

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

Ne vois-tu pas que, si les gens de métier s'accommodent jusqu'à un certain point aux goûts des particuliers, ils n'en restent pourtant pas moins attachés à la raison de leur art et ne supportent pas de s'en écarter?

A me piace chi conosce il suo mestiere e lavora per far durare le cose di tutti un poco di più. L'arte nobile della manutenzione, di non buttare via quello che ancora può funzionare, che si può aggiustare. Anche questo per me significa una repubblica fondata sul lavoro, e sul restauro.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.

Real painters grunt like Marlon Brando

Becka said that writing was almost the same as that—each letter was like a picture or a row of stitching, and it was also like a musical note; you just had to learn how to form the letters, and then how to attach them together

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive us.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.