Master Craftsman Sayings

#1. 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

#2. You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Max Lucado

#3. Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

John Calvin

#4. The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.

Sam Maloof

#5. I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Philip Kerr

#6. It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

Karl Pearson

#7. Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Pope Paul VI

#8. We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

Jeffrey Deitch

#9. Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.

Yony Leyser

#10. Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

Manny Farber

#11. Falling, whether to the ground or in love, is always at least a little bit scary, even if you do it slowly.

Mia Sheridan

#12. A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.

Michael Meade

#13. To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

George Orwell

#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. I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

Ruth Whitman

#16. The man who uses his hands is a laborer. The man who uses his mind is a master. But the man who gives his heart to the passion is a craftsman.

Anonymous