One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman. )
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
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 streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.
I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.
