Craftsman Quotes

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

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.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

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

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

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

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

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

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 their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

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.?

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

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