Quotes About Craftsmanship

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

In the souls of the craftsmen who carved this mine, utility was no excuse for a thing to be anything but beautiful.

He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried to learn more, in order to serve it better.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

Her needles clicked and flashed triumphantly as her eyes came back from their journeying and fixed themselves upon her work for that one knitting event for which their regard was necessary- the turning of the heel.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic.

So—you're a writer. You're an artist.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

In truth, a good master mason could build an entire Gothic cathedral with just a compass and a T square, a device he borrowed from Greek mathematicians for lining up perfect vertical and horizontal lines. This dazzling command of practical geometry made the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages truly independent businessmen. By the fourteenth century, they were already calling themselves free masons.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Non mi piacciono i regali" mormorò Corso, cupo. "Una volta dei tipi accettarono un certo cavallo di legno. Artigianato acheo, c'era scritto sull'etichetta. Che idioti.

era preciso y fiable como una navaja suiza.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

I'm an artist; I'm not a rapper.