Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Artisans. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Artisans Quotes and Sayings from 96 influential authors, including Nathan Sawaya,Sebastiao Salgado,Lucy Larcom,Francis Of Assisi,Freeman Patterson, for you to enjoy and share.

I am an artist who works with Lego. By Nathan Sawaya Lego Artist Works

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller. By Sebastiao Salgado Object Artist Makes History Storyteller

Tailor's workthe finishing of men's outside garmentswas the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind. By Lucy Larcom Trade Tailor Learned Home Idea

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. By Francis Of Assisi Works Hands Head Artist Laborerhe

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them. By Freeman Patterson Tools Materials Artist Craftperson Knowledgeable

Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft. By Ed Catmull Art Craft Expected Unexpected

Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus By Kevin Hearne Craftsmen Creating Atticus Product Greatness

I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change. By Marc Jacobs Things Make Choices Choosing Colours

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves. By Frank Beddor Milliner Standing Stand

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience. By Adam Smith Husbandry Country Great Trade Apprenticeship

Speak, what trade art thou?Why, sir, a carpenter.Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?What does thou with thy best apparel on? By William Shakespeare Speak Sir Thy Rule Thou

We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just ... carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands. By Sam Starbuck Artists People Carriers Lands Boats

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration. By Kenneth G. Mills Inspiration Artist Handyman Service

I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that. By David Rees Craftsmanship Limited Lot Stuff Make

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. By Tim Conway Wood Work Lot Sew Make

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. By Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr. Photography Craftsman Business Portrait Combine

Craft is part of the creative process. By Gavin Bryars Craft Process Part Creative

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner. By George Singleton Corner Day Cherish Memory Blacksmiths

If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you. By Avery Brooks Carpenter Skill God Find Empower

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said. By John Sulston Remember Earlier Artisan Doer Back

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. By Giorgetto Giugiaro Objects Artisan Architect Designer Invented

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman. By Lilly Wachowski Part Craftsman Filmmaker

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands. By Richard Macdonald People Foundry Task Work Drudgery

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity. By Aldous Huxley Compelled Artists Machinery Days Men

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti. By Donna Karan Haiti Dimension Love Work Artisans

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science. By James Reese Craftwork Faith Science Easy

The Skilled Craftsmen 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2"See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship, 4to make artistic designs for work in gold, in silver, and in bronze, 5and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. By Anonymous Son Craftsmen Moses Bezalel Uri

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. By David Bailey Tailor Machinist Father Mother

Actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk, By Susan Juby Artists Actual Chaos Tidy Reputation

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake. By Richard Sennett Carpenter Lab Technician Sake Conductor

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness. By Seth Godin Ending Beginning Industrial Age Gracefulness

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work. By Harold Rosenberg Artist Craftsman Objects Work Skills

I'm an image-maker. By David Bailey Imagemaker

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities. By John Maeda Thinkers People Things Economy Built

How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship. By Robert C. Martin Tough Make Wind Door Craftsmanship

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that. By Bill Callahan Makes Laugh Talk Music Craft

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life. By Spencer W. Kimball Real Caring Craftsmanship Involved Fellowmen

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that. By Tori Spelling Cooking Love Crafting

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Alas Good Craftsman Artist Artists

Real artists ship. By Steve Jobs Real Ship Artists

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. By P. J. O'rourke Things Making Home Wood Shop

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further. By William Coperthwaite Good Apprentices Process Masters Responsible

The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs. By Alexander Woollcott World Ruined Amateurs Oldest Professions

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. By Vandana Shiva Craft Human Labor Fact Find

I believe in the honest craft of workmen. By Robert A. Heinlein Workmen Honest Craft

I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have. By Nina Dobrev Love Fashion Clothes Collaborating Putting

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. By Oscar Wilde Labor Moments Art Attains Dignity

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster. By Anne Truitt Life Foster Appalling Amount Mechanical

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. By F. Sionil Jose Identities Community Appreciation Folk Art

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. By Nick Park Father Photographer Tinkerer Maker Mender

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job. By Doug Stanhope Job Artists People

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things. By Marc Newson Bottles Things People Make Watches

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. By Gautama Buddha Irrigators Waters Fletchers Arrows Carpenters

I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder. By Kevin Systrom Crafts Love Instagram Cooking Drink

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements. By Eric Hoffer Poverty Coupled Creativeness Free Poor

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist. By Tracey Emin Commerce Artist Opposed

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost. By Chali 2Na Painter Foremost Love

We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and book binders from conviction and with passion, not because we are insufficiently talented for other higher things, but because for us the highest things stand in close kinship to those ends By Rudolph Koch Compositors Printers Cutters Designers Punch

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. By Galina Ulanova Labour Artist Dig Achievements Creative

Art feasts upon its maker By David Mitchell Art Maker Feasts

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting. By Walter Gropius Ultimate Aim Artistic Activity Building

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. By Anton Chekhov Selects Guesses Observes Synthesizes Artist

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand. By Piet Pieterszoon Hein God Labour Clod Adding Nature

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. By Joyce Carol Oates Allure Elusive Gift Blending Austerity

Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world. By Daniel H. Pink Financial Overseas World Firms Sending

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity. By Mark Harmon Weekends Hang Dad Workshop Actor

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation. By Andrea Barrett Leading Material Sculptor Painter Weaver

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. By William Mcelcheran Mystic Craftsman Artist

Mechanic slavesWith greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shallUplift us to the view. By William Shakespeare Rules Mechanic Aprons Hammers Shalluplift

I do a lot of ceramics. By Jeff Bridges Ceramics Lot

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ... CONCRETE ... one builds a picture. By Pierre Alechinsky Canvas Concrete Largely Rely Hands

We often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. By William Stanley Jevons Interest Employment Observe Abundance Capital

When the maker's (or fixer's) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of direct perception. Then the social character of his work isn't separate from its internal or "engineering" standards; the work is improved through relationships with others. It may even be the case that what those standards are, what perfection consists of, is something that comes to light only through these iterated exchanges with others who use the product, as well as other craftsmen in the same trade. Through work that had this social character, some shared conception of the good is lit up, and becomes concrete. By Matthew B. Crawford Maker Fixer Activity Perception Work

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material. By Zanele Muholi Deal Fine Finery Material Artists

AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR By Henry David Thoreau Amateur Artist

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills. By Nick Offerman Building Scenery Grew Theatrical Skills

Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. By Charles Dickens Xiv Delicacy Fellow Xvi Honest

I take my craft very seriously. By Jimmy Chamberlin Craft

A man and his tools make a man and his trade. By Vita Sackville-West Man Trade Tools Make

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. By Georges Bizet Art Profession Beautiful Wretched

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint. By David Trubridge Simplicity Impact Natural Processes Leaving

The craftsman and the artist say, "Here, I made this." The workingman is asked to follow instructions. By Seth Godin Craftsman Artist Made Instructions Workingman

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes. By Francisco Costa Artist Clothes Fashion Designer

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from. By Johnnie Dent Jr. Work Craft Art

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. By Philip Treacy Designer Milliner Hat

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. By Jack Vance Mentioned Time Carpenter

engineer finishes By Philip K. Dick Engineer Finishes

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman. By Thomas Steinbeck Tradesman Father Thought Craftsman

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly. By Ciaran Hinds Word Artists Lightly

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet. By Eva Herzigova Pottery Relaxing Planet Love

Artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. By Madeleine L'engle Artists Met Human

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc. By Paul Rankin Work Craft Teacher Element Train

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. By Duff Goldman Cakes Decorators Decorate People Hired

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind. By Jerry Saltz Craft Category Museum Design Arts

Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry. By Marie Rutkoski Feeling Sheer Sparkling Sleek Seamstress

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. By Lloyd Alexander Craftsmanship Pot Empty Water Earthen

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? By William Morris Excellent Artist Workman Determined Work

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. By Jada Pinkett Smith Commerce Flow Art Pieces

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying. By Lucy Larcom Artists Heard Wished Time Paper

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted. By Orhan Pamuk Craftsman Wasted Patience Skill Greatest