[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands…

— Oscar Wilde

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

— Anonymous

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft…

— Vandana Shiva

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thimphu not only has the best handicraft shops in the country (it does), it's also the best place to actually see the products being…

— Lonely Planet

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out…

— Marshall McLuhan

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call…

— Carroll Quigley

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to…

— Mao Zedong

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the…

— Eric Hoffer

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often…

— Miriam Schapiro

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of…

— Pat Conroy

Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search, become her…

— Rumi

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing…

— Octavio Paz