Quotes about Craftsmanship

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

We are God's productions, His compositions.