Arts And Crafts Quotes

• The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

  Satish Kumar

  Art, Simplicity, Crafts

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• The authentic self is the soul made visable.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Yoga, Self, Soul

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

  Marcel Proust

  Artist, World, Failing

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• I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

  Christina Milian

  Art, Fun, Ceramics

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• Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Memories, Book

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

  William Morris

  Art, Want, Art Education

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

  William Morris

  Simple, Simplicity, Foundation

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, World, Crafts

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Mother, Art, School

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• It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Health, Healing

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Running, Art, Dad

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.

  Duane Elgin

  Art, Expression, Hands

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• And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Art, Simple, Love Is

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• With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

  Lisa Loeb

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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