Quotes about Craftsmanship
Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
- Jeremiah 52:23
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- Ezekiel 28:13
For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
- Hosea 8:6
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
- Acts 18:3
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
- Romans 9:21
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
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great amity between designing and art.
- Joseph Addison
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
- Oprah Winfrey
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
- Samuel Johnson