#Craftsmanship Quotes

“The house praises the carpenter.”

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

“The true ship is the ship builder.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”

“I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.”

“When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.”

“It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”

“There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.”

“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."”

“The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.”

“Every sentence is the result of a long probation.”

“A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.”

“Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.”

“May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.”

“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.”

“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”

“If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.”

“I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.”