Quotes About Craftsman

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software is the engineer tasked with actually building the product. Only in software is the "ironworker" tasked with determining how the product will be constructed.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

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

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

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

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

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

The Maker is the Mighty One.

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.

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.

The Maker is mighty in strength.

It should be understood that in medieval eyes an artist was simply a craftsman, his activities having little to do with the twentieth-century notions of self-expression, individual genius and 'artistic temperament' that nowadays cling to his profession.

I am but an architectural composer.

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

From 1788 onward, the quantity of iron England produced doubled every eight or ten years, an early industrial version of Moore's law.10 What major product did England manufacture from all that iron? Nails, says Samuel Smiles, the Victorian chronicler, "nails of iron made with pit coal."11 It was still a wooden world, the craftsman's essential tool a hammer.

But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him.

Walt's face lit up. Sadie, Ptah was more than the craftsman god, right? Didn't they call him the God of Opening? Um...Possibly. I thought you taught us that. Or maybe it was Carter. Boring bit of information? Probably Carter.

Another lean unwash'd artificer.

Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult.

You are the draftsman and craftsman of your own destiny.

Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.