Art Quote by Walter Gropius

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

— Roman Polanski

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

— Orhan Pamuk

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

— Shea Hembrey

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild…

— Walter Gropius

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

— Fritz Lang

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring…

— Freeman Patterson

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…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is…

— Walter Gropius

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is…

— Walter Gropius

Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're an indirect…

— Urs Fischer

Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should paint or…

— Antoine Arnault