I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools. ' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do. ?
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman. )
No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.
God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.