CRAFTSMANSHIP

Related Subject: Skill

1. No man is his craft's master the first day.—Proverb
   

2. Show him rather the simple man-made things that race after race have fashioned, and that live still, in our sight and near to our hands.
   
   Tell him of things. He will stand be­side you and wonder as you once stood in Rome by the maker of rope, or by the potter in Egypt.
   
   Show him how happy a thing can be, how blameless, how much ours.—RAINER M. RILKE
   

3. We shall take the bull by the horns and run the full risks of controversy in our conception of craft as consisting of the spirit in which, rather than solely the means by which, a production process is carried out.—S. G. WILLIAMSON, The American Craftsman
   

4. Craft is a link which weds science to art, to the benefit of each.—S. G. WILLIAMSON, The American Craftsman
   

5. Craft is the basis of most invention. . . . Craft instinct must still augment, and lend its creative qualities to, the scientific aspects of invention. What is craft but the perception of how to use something, even if that something is a formula?—S. G. WILLIAMSON, The American Craftsman
   

6. Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.—ZEUXIS