Plutarch Quotes

I think I make shoes quite okay.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

With tailored clothing, you can really see where the money went. How it's constructed, how it fits your body - this becomes very apparent in tailored clothing.

Fit and fabric are paramount. If the jacket fits, it doesn't matter what price you paid for it - you will look and feel fantastic.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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.

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

I like to think of us as a more European-fit American brand, and invariably, when you go to Savile Row for a suit, you'll find that the suit fits you like a glove. That's how it should fit: form to your body. Especially here in the States, men have to really understand the importance of that fit. If I'm dressing a friend, I'll usually give him a size down from the one he's asked for; he'll think it's too small, but after a while he gets it.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

In love as in art, good technique helps.

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

The house praises the carpenter.

The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care - just like the people who make them. But what we’ve shown is that people do care. It’s not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.