Top 22 Crafts Quotes

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you‘ll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

I like arts and crafts.

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I’d love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus – the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe’s sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a ‘profession.’ There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn’t feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts… and now we are, so we’re out there, just like the guys.

The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.

There’s all these stores all over the country and a lot of them are small but they’re like little Aladdin’s caves full of exciting nooks and crannies filled to the brim with products. Then you’ve got Hobbycraft, which is like a supermarket for crafts. What we want to be is a hybrid between the two.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that’s pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

People just need to go back to the ancient crafts. We should teach people to do whittling at school, or knitting.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns – in the little experience I have doing them – is that there’s no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.