Quotes about Artistry
He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
- 2 Chronicles 3:16
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
- 2 Chronicles 4:15
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
- Isaiah 40:19
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
- Isaiah 44:13
Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
- Jeremiah 10:9
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
- Jeremiah 18:3
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Jeremiah 18:5
were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:
- Ezekiel 41:18
the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:19
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
- Paul Graham
if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.
- Paul Graham
The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.
- Paul Graham