Craftsmanship - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. — William S. Burroughs

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. — John Ruskin

The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture. — Jose Andres

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction. — Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Five...

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. — Christina Westover Precipice

of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree — Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Havoc

The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the...

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