Quotes about Craftsmanship
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- Charles Dickens
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
- George Bernard Shaw
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
- Oscar Wilde
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
- Wendell Berry
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
- Florence Nightingale
When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.
- Steven Furtick
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
- Ernest Hemingway
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
- Martin Luther
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
- Dorothy Sayers
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
- Elbert Hubbard