Quotes about Craftsmanship
If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.
— Aldous Huxley
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
— Ernest Hemingway
Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.
— Robert Wright
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
— Ian Mckellen
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
— Alice Hoffman
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
— DH Lawrence
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?
— Edith Schaeffer
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
— Anonymous
Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
— Anonymous
Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.
— Anonymous