Respect for Craftsmanship Quotes

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.