Craftsmanship Quotes - Page 2

• The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

  Walter Gropius

  Fighting, Artistic, Imitation

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• Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

  Annie Proulx

  Reading, Years, Wide

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

  Douglas Sirk

  Gone, Reason, Angle

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• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Inspiration, Passion, Responsibility

  "At The Center Of Waris Ahluwalia’s Universe" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2012.

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• A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Writing, Hints, May

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• Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

  Tim Cahill

  Hate, Men, Interviews

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• I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

  Ai Weiwei

  Beautiful, Mean, Perfect

  "Change" on PBS, Episode 1, Season Six, April 2012.

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• In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Hate

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• The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Taught

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• Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some repair work was being done the craftsmen saw that the work on the other side of the plaster, the part not visible to the human eye was done with the same kind of craftsmanship that was done on what was visible and observable. And the explanation for that is that the work that Christians do is not just for human consumption, but it is also for the eyes of God.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Eye, Excellence

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes with rapping. As rap progresses - it's a young genre - it's becoming way more mainstream, crossing over to different lanes. I feel like it's losing its essence in a way, because it's getting commercialised. I want to keep it fresh and keep it progressive, but I also want to respect the foundation of what rap is about.

  Cakes da killa

  Rap, Hip Hop, Progress

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

  Dylan Thomas

  Poetry, Gaps, Thunder

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

  Sean Lennon

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Sunday

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• Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Idols, Craftsman

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• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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• I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

  Issey Miyake

  Technology, Hands, Brain

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• The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.

  Miroslava Duma

  Fashion, Sustainability, Storytelling

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Law, Space

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

  Linda Ronstadt

  Guitar, Ideas, Sound

  "Ronstadt Proves She Can Go `Home' Again / New album returns singer to her roots". Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. March 19, 1995.

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• [Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

  Sam Shepard

  Art, Writing, Crafts

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• I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Passion, Ink

  "Harold Evans: proud to be a publishing crusader". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.bendbulletin.com. March 7, 2010.

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• I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

  David Rees

  Play, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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