Quotes About Craftsmanship

The craftsman and the artist say, "Here, I made this." The workingman is asked to follow instructions.

It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

Steven Pressfield wrote, "What have you and I been put on this Earth to do? Is it not the creation of the 'inauthentic,' that is the purposefully crafted, in order to deliver to others the gift and simulacrum of authenticity? That's why they call it Art, and why, in some crazy way, it's realer than real and truer than true.

The seam of the stocking along the end of her right

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, "I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant.

The soldiers of the East India Company obliged, systematically smashing the looms of some Bengali weavers and, according to at least one contemporary account (as well as widespread, if unverifiable, belief), breaking their thumbs so they could not ply their craft.

My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought us at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Value Village, and garage sales. My late sister studied my mother's denim quilt and said, 'That's a lot of pants. There's been a lot of ass in those pants. This is a blanket of asses.

Because they don't want to be perfect, because only God is perfect, Indian people sew flaws into their powwow regalia. My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia. But we always hid it so that you had to search really hard to find it.

You've got a lot of crafty ambition for an Indian boy who can't sew for shit.

Patience to the spider

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).

It was made from bark slabs and wattle and daub

I have never thought about what I was doing in terms of art, or "this is great," or "world-shaking," or anything like that. To me, it was always a job of work—which I enjoyed immensely—and that's it.

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?

Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.

I love sailboats. No other man-made object blends design, craftsmanship, passion, and pure optimism the way a sailboat does. With a good sailboat, anything is possible.