Quotes about Craftsmanship

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.