Quotes About Craftsmanship

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.