Quotes About Craftsman

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

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.

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.

todos somos como la arcilla en manos del alfarero y ninguna vasija podía preguntarle: «¿por qué me has hecho así?».

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

Under the spreading chestnut treeThe village smithy stands;The smith a mighty man is heWith large and sinewy hands.And the muscles of his brawny armsAre strong as iron bands.

In the 'Instructions for King Merikere,' written in the inter-regnum between the Old and the Middle Kingdoms of Egypt, we read: "Be a craftsman in speech, so that thou mayest prevail, for the power [of a man] is the tongue, and speech is mightier than fighting.

That you may be strong be a craftsman in speech, for the strength of one is the tongue, and the speech of one is mightier than all fighting. –Written five thousand years ago by Ptahhotep

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

You as a Fascist stand for the small trader against the chain-store; for the peasant against the usurer; for the nation, great or small, against the super-state; for personal business against Big Business; for the craftsman against the Machine; for the creator against the middleman; for all that prospers by individual effort and creative toil, against all that prospers in the abstract air of High Finance or of the theoretic ballyhoo of Internationalism.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he settled for working with dead animals rather than live ones. Dad was a true craftsman, an artist.

He put the screwdriver on a nearby counter.

The second Adam since the fall His germinal Corruption held the seed Of that congenital heresy that men fail According to their creed. Craftsman and castaway All heaven in his head, He watched his shadow pray Not for God's love but human love instead.

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

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.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. A man who works with his hands, brain and heart is an artist.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst—art—for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.

Adding to that charm (as well as to the general air of funkiness), a large and ancient library desk took up almost half the lobby, and on it, overflowing, were dozens of brochures explaining CASA's work, announcements about classes and self-improvement programs, volunteer guidelines, knickknacks, craftsman bowls, several different magazines, and other specialty

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.