Quotes about Craftsmanship

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.