Craftsman Quotes

• 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.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Success, Confidence

  Max Lucado (2009). “Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Artist, Hands

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quality

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Skills, Talent

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• Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

  Richard Sennett

  Jobs, Names, Desire

  Richard Sennett (2009). “The Craftsman”, p.17, Penguin UK

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

  Mo Willems

  Artist, Waiting, Audience

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• 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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Work, Judging

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• It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Limits

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Artist, Results, Knows

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 265), 1973.

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

  John Calvin

  Mother, Idols, Masters

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• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Work, Games

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Motivational, Artist

  "Paul Cézanne : Letters" edited by John Rewald, 1995.

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dens, Prove

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.63, Macmillan

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Genius

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• If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.

  Sam Maloof

  Beautiful, Hands, Skills

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• The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

  Plato

  Art, Poetry, Kind

  Plato (1961). “Plato, with an English translation”

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• 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.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Hands, Achievement

  Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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

  William McElcheran

  Art, Artist, Mystic

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• 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.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wish, Vastness, Wonder

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

  Richard Sennett

  Inability, Obsession, Failing

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