Craftsmanship Quotes

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Artist, Hands

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• Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Real, Caring

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  Johannes Brahms

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

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• Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

  Richard Sennett

  Jobs, Names, Desire

  Richard Sennett (2009). “The Craftsman”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Motivational, Artist

  "Paul Cézanne : Letters" edited by John Rewald, 1995.

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• When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Work, Judging

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• It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Memories, Style

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Life Is, Missions, Preserves

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

  Sergei Bongart

  Expression, Giving, Technique

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• That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

  William Morris

  Inspiration, Matter, Nonsense

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• If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rapper, Mcdonalds, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Taken, Water, Empty

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.130, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Moving, Sacred, Way

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• The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Tools, Literature

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• I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

  Isabella Blow

  Hate, I Hate, Crap

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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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• One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

  Oliver $

  Artistic, Masters, Senses

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• What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project.

  Kris Kidd

  Unique, Numbers, Skills

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• Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.

  George L. Carlson

  Essence, Simplicity, Important

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• When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

  Robert Schumann

  Skills, May, Youth

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