Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
Gordon Nelson is not only my friend, he's my mentor. He is a master craftsman with unique experience, and an approach to… — Nick Arrojo Copy Share Image
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… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
