David Heyman Quotes

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

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

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

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

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.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Art is all in the details.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Craft is everything.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

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

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

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

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is that. So I think, at least my idea, was lets bring something again that's primitive and guttural but then let's also do something beautiful where you're outside and this isn't a typical western setting. It's lush. It's green. It's beautiful.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

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.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.