Quotes about Craftsmanship
For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
— Hosea 8:6
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
— Acts 18:3
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
— Romans 9:21
The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.
— Paul Graham
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great amity between designing and art.
— Joseph Addison
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar Wilde
The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
— Samuel Johnson
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
— Steven Pressfield
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
— Martin Luther