Douglas Adams

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

English Writer

Walter Gropius

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

German Architect

Jonathan Ive

With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

English Designer

Jeffrey Deitch

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

American Businessman

Edward de Bono

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

English Psychologist

Peter Dinklage

There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.

American Actor

Noam Chomsky

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

American Activist

Dan Colen

It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

American Artist

Shea Hembrey

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

Lilly Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

American Director

Craftsman implies the items are made with individual skill, not mass-produced.

Handmade Quality

A craftsman is highly skilled and usually has formal training or a long experience.

Professional Skill

Craftsman's work reflects their personal style and expertise.

Personal Touch

 We are seeing an amazing flourishing taking place. In a world where it is just about as easy to generate an object as it is to print a document, we have amazing new possibilities. The people who used to be craftsmen and hobbyists are now makers, and they're responsible

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 And what they're going to make with them is up to them. We don't want to dictate the use cases. We would like to let people who make those things -- artists and designers, brands and craftsmen -- to imagine and create this new world where things are connected

Everything around you...

 The sign said it all. I see it, and even today, I imagine the master baker dedicating the same amount of time to each loaf of bread that the craftsman dedicated to each letter of this word. I can see the bread, with just the right ingredients,

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 Poets, like craftsman, still work with the raw materials of the world to forge new understandings and comment on what it is to be human in a way only humans can. Dartmouth researchers tested this idea by asking robots to pen poetry.

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 But the Celts were much more than just warriors. Among them were many skilled craftsmen, artists, and great poets called bards. The bards sang of the brave deeds of their ancestors and praised the accomplishments of warrior kings—

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 had claimed that they were the best craftsmen in the world and were determined to prove it in a competition. The rules were that each family had to create three gifts for the gods, including, for the Ivaldis, golden hair.

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 you spun the blood, looked at it under the microscope, you plated the culture, you injected the antiserum. This was a life as a craftsman. As a result, we built it around a culture and set of values

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 hunter craftsman and navigator who even became fluent in Inuit their team also included four Inuit guides who helped them in their mission the explorers made several failed attempts before they

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 to daily life at the scale of the city beyond the walls of any institution it's hard for me to believe that now it's built thanks to a team of hundreds of engineers and designers craftsmen and

Designing for social...

 craftsmen such as these the people of the Nile have also found it useful for building the ancient Egyptians even used it to make the paper on which they