Craftsman Quotes

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I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

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

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

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 man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

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.

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 as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

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

You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

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

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

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 lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

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.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

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.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

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

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

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 originality.

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

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.