Craftsman Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Christian Dior

  Curves, Dresses, Female

  "The Master Of The Haute Couture's Museum", Balenciaga Museum, June 6, 2011.

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Artist

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• 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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Spirit, Relation, Subjects

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.171, Hackett Publishing

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• I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

  Roman Polanski

  Artist

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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."

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Needs, Littles

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• The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Artist, Order, Enlightenment

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Sight, Matter

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Jobs, Hands

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• It looks glamorous and wonderful, but it's a job like any other. And I think that's their humility coming through, Joel [Coen] and Ethan's [Coen] humility. I think they really believe they are tradesmen, craftsmen, and they're just pursuing their trade, their craft, and doing the best they can with it.

  David Krumholtz

  Jobs, Believe, Humility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.

  Maria Semple

  Wall, Dark, Years

  "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

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• If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Wish

  "A Talent to Amuse". Book by Sheridan Morley, 1985.

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• We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Men, Erode, Want

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Agriculture, Quality

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• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Team, Boss, Cinema

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• Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

  Dorothea Brande

  Character, Artist, Two

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Together

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.116, Candlewick Press

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• 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.

  Joy Davidman

  Sight, Joy, Doe

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• 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.

  Jonathan Ive

  Father, Furniture, Incredibles

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• American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Son, Careers, People

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Money, Selfish

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Thinker

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• Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

  Sylvia Plath

  Acceptance, Winning, Past

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.205, Anchor

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

  Hesiod

  Jealous, Competition, Enemy

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• If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

  Michael Atiyah

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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