Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to…

— Jacques Pepin

I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button…

— Garry Winogrand

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well,…

— Donald Miller

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female…

— Christian Dior

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you…

— Jonathan Ive

Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion.…

— Pratik Gandhi

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or divine gift.…

— Sean Patrick

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

— George Carlin

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

— Simone de Beauvoir

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

— Otto Weininger

“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a…

— M.F. Moonzajer