Quotes about Craftsmanship

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

The artist in me cries out for design.

She asked for clay and started to make models and sculptures. She

In Exodus 31 God sanctifies a wide spectrum of artistic gifts by blessing "all kinds of craftsmanship.

God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.

Moses was a prophet, but the tabernacle needed an artist.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.