Top 23 Quotes About Handicraft
#1. To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford
#2. Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#3. Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared that shoemakers had given to the world a larger number of eminent men than any other handicraft.
George Smith
#4. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Rumi
#5. It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
Pat Conroy
#6. Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be encouraged, though one is reluctant to use its products.
Anton Chekhov
#7. Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Nathalie Sarraute
#8. In case the term is unfamiliar, the best description ever for 'cozies' is 'murder mysteries where no one cares who got killed because they're all distracted by cooking new recipes or following intricate handicraft instructions.'"--The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
Wendy Welch
#9. Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
#10. The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Vandana Shiva
#11. To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech
this is the greatest blessing.
Gautama Buddha
#12. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. [Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon
#14. The Indian must not lose pride in what he does, in his handicraft, for if he loses pride he will no longer build, his art will fail him, and he will completely be dependent upon others.
Louis L'Amour
#15. Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Oscar Wilde
#16. You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
Saint John Chrysostom
#17. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. But in that moment, I felt it happen. My heart slowed, took a deep breath, and let out a giant sigh. Just like that, it gave in, unable to fight it anymore. I had no idea how long we had or how things were going to play out, but I knew without a doubt that I was in love with Carter. ***
Penelope Ward
#20. A smile can go a long way, but a scowl can go even further.
Jayce O'Neal
#21. When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, 'No.'
Julian Castro
#22. Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.
Mors Kochanski
#23. To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.
Samuel Johnson
