Artisans Quotes

“What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?”
― Michelle Dennis Evans

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

“It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“When you visit a country, visit the forgotten artisans of the narrow streets because they are the ones who made that country! Do this, not to honour them but to honour yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are a dozen factors that make Japanese food so special- ingredient obsession, technical precision, thousands of years of meticulous refinement- but chief among them is one simple concept: specialization. In the Western world, where miso-braised short ribs share menu space with white truffle ceviche, restaurants cast massive nets to try to catch as many fish as possible, but in Japan, the secret to success is choosing one thing and doing it fucking well. Forever. There are people who dedicate their entire lives to grilling beef intestines, slicing blowfish, kneading buckwheat into tangles of chewy noodles- microdisciplines with infinite room for improvement.
The concept of shokunin, an artisan deeply and singularly dedicated to his or her craft, is at the core of Japanese culture.”
― Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

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

“The hundreds of bridges in Venice, they are not the only bridges here. … The artisans are living bridges.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“So the Dark did a simple thing," he said. "They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such endless fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.”
― Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree