Top 124 Craftsman Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

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.

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

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

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

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

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

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

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 certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

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.

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

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

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

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

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

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master.

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

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

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

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

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

With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

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

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

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

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

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.?

That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.

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.

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.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

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.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

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

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

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

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

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

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."

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

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.