Fabiola Gianotti Quotes

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I am a maker of useful things.

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Hands make the world each day.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.