Zac Posen Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

Whatever you do, do it well.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.