A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you've created something.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.

We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Baking is both an art and a science.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Composing is an extension of my being, skills and knowledge.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.