Quotes about Artistry
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
- Oscar Wilde
The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs
- Oscar Wilde
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
- Pablo Picasso
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
- Paulo Coelho
And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- Exodus 25:25
Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
- Exodus 25:31
Fashion gold filigree settings
- Exodus 28:13
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
- Exodus 31:5
Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen.
- Exodus 35:25
And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.
- Exodus 35:26