Quotes About Artisanship

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

I am incredibly passionate about craft but am just as passionate about supporting local craft companies.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

She was not a Christian in the accepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever worked among us as a young artisan.

At Rheims, the serfs and farmers and peasants filled gigantic spaces with the most incredible stained-glass windows in the world, but they never bothered to sign even one of them. No one knows who designed or made them, because our modern form of institutional boasting did not yet exist as a corruption of communitarian feeling. After all these centuries, they still announce what being human really means.

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth anyone's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Traditional American handicraft was employed in the wall's construction, and so most of it had collapsed.