Top 21 Good Craftsman Quotes

#1. Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#2. Good wood often warps if no craftsman uses it.

Jerry Toner

#3. The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. 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

#5. Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Nathanael West

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I was born in a blender.

Lorna Luft

#10. 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

#11. April showers bring May flower

Chris Cleave

#12. 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

#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. 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

#15. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

#16. We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Maxim Gorky

#17. 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

#18. Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Elizabeth I

#19. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

Wendell Berry

#20. 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

#21. The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

Ezra Taft Benson

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