Handiwork Quotes

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

I just like building stuff.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I am a maker of useful things.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

I like building.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

Evil is the handiwork of the rabbis and priests.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.