Kevin Systrom Quotes

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.

Craft is everything.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

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.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

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

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

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.

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You've got to perfect your craft.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt.

You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.