I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

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

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'

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

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

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.

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

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.?

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

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.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he settled for working with dead animals rather than live ones. Dad was a true craftsman, an artist.

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

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.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

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