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
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid… — Jacques Brel Copy Share Image
“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. — William McElcheran Copy Share Image
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
“Mike Jackson leveraged the craftsman mindset to do whatever he did really well, thus ensuring that he came away from each experience… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“A man was suffering a persistent problem with his house. The floor squeaked. No matter what he tried, nothing worked. Finally, he… — Christy Wright Copy Share Image
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams 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
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but… — Criss Jami 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
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I… — Robert Sheckley 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
With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius 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
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image