38 Quotes About Craftsmanship

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading.

What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impression you make a paragraph carry, are most extraordinary.... You once told me you were not a natural writer—my God! You have plainly mastered the craft, of course; but you needed far more than craftsmanship for this. [about The Great Gatsby]

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Great prose replenishes the language it’s written in...

Receive the spirit of Bezalel. The spirit of light, illumination, understanding, craftsmanship, skill, excellence, prophesy and manifestation. This is your time!

In a world where news of inhumanity bombards our sensibilities, where grasping for things goes so far beyond our needs, where time is squandered in busyness, it is a pleasure and a privilege to pause for a look at handiwork, to see beauty amidst utility, and to know that craft traditions begun so long ago serve us today.