Top 21 Good Craftsman Quotes
#1. I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
Christian Dior
#2. I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
Donald Miller
#3. When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.
Jacques Pepin
#4. My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
Jonathan Ive
#6. The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action ... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Alexis Carrel
#8. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
Wendell Berry
#9. Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Elizabeth I
#10. We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds.
Maxim Gorky
#11. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
#12. Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all.
Rudyard Kipling
#13. If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Noel Coward
#14. Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.
Anthony Bourdain
#17. 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
#19. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry
#20. The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. Good wood often warps if no craftsman uses it.
Jerry Toner
