Quotes About Craftsmanship

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

Painting is more important than art.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

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.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

All art is but imitation of nature.

The temple of art is built in words.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.