Artisan Quotes

“For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

“Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.”

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

“Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing class of people outside the traditional paternalistic relations of the countryside. Möser's conception of contemporary political and economic trends in Osnabrück was essentialy tragic and tinged with that idealization of the past that would later be called romantic. Möser's heroes were the artisan-citizen and the independent peasant, his villains the shopkeeper and the peddler.”

“Americans are artisans in freedom.”

“The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.”

“Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.”

“Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.”

“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.”

“Create your own future”