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• Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Creativity, Training

  "Paul Klee, 1879-1940: Poet of Colours, Masters of Lines". Book by Paul Klee and Susanna Partsch, p. 47, 2000.

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• The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Profound, Creative, Facts

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• There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

  R.A. Dickey

  Artist, Metamorphosis, Steady

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• When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

  David Gordon Green

  Beautiful, Tools, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• My verse
  has brought me
  no roubles to spare:
  no craftsmen have made
  mahogany chairs for my house.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Poetry, House, Chairs

  Vladimir Mayakovsky, “At The Top Of My Voice”

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

  Sara Genn

  Art, Understatement, Calculating

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• There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Player, Missing

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• There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

  Karl Marx

  People, World, Looks

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• 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.

  William Goldman

  Dream, Art, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.84, A&C Black

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• To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Reflection, Past

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Creativity, Exercise

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• The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Mean, Artist, Skills

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Inquest into Modernism", p. 51, 1985.

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• I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

  Peter Zumthor

  Home, Hands, Years

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• I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

  Dale Chihuly

  Artist, Names, Half

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• If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Simple, Ordinary Days

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Benches, Share, Fluttering

  1926 The Land,'Summer'.

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• I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

  Werner Herzog

  Artist, Feelings, Artisans

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.

  Grayson Perry

  Artist, Giving, Perfect

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• Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.

  Phil Stern

  Artist, Looks, Photographer

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• 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

  Rumi

  Cutting, Agony, Skills

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• Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.

  Raymond Williams

  Art, Independent, Kind

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• That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.

  Billy Corgan

  Real, Voice, Creative

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

  Aristotle

  Art, Mean, Intellectual

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• 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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Quality, Needs, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)”, p.457, e-artnow

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