Quotes About An Artisan

#1. This one quotation could really serve as the emblem of this chapter: an artisan, who was touched by a neighbor, by a printed Bible in French, and above all by the Psalms.

William L. Holladay

#2. As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

John Sulston

#3. A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#4. It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

Giorgetto Giugiaro

#5. [ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

Alan Kay

#6. The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

Washington Allston

#7. We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Rhys Ifans

#9. When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

Danny McBride

#10. Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Pope Francis

#11. An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

Alain Ducasse

#13. My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

Gerard Depardieu

#14. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.

Megan Whalen Turner

#15. 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

#16. Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

Joseph Addison

#18. The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe
As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Idries Shah

#19. Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Eugen Herrigel

#20. There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.

Miyamoto Musashi

#22. Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

Flora Thompson

#23. I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

#24. The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11

Richard Sennett