Best Craftsman Sayings

96 Craftsman quotes by 88 unique authors

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 the crafts that… — Jeffrey Deitch
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the… — Manny Farber
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence… — Manny Farber
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. — Peter Zumthor
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me. — Alexander McQueen
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths. — Jacques Brel
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced… — Werner Herzog
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception… — Morris Graves
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with… — E. M. Forster
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value… — Evelyn Waugh
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of… — George Steiner
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing… — Al Franken
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a… — Dave Matthews
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. — Mike Mills
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a… — Louis Nizer
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
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe… — Brad Pitt
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to… — Martin Scorsese
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,… — Martin Filler
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re… — J D Salinger

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