38 Quotes About Craftsmanship

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

An artist who works with his hands, his head and his heart at the same time creates a masterpiece.

The pursuit of beauty. The word is hard to articulate. As soon as you open your moth, it flies off, like a bird of paradise. Beauty can not be caught, but we are obliged to reach for it. Beauty is not neutral; pursuing it is a political act. Building is a grand act, a gesture toward peace, the opposite of destruction.

Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.