Arts And Crafts Quotes:

The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

- David Bayles

topic: Art, Lying, Hands, Arts And Crafts

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

- Satish Kumar

topic: Art, Simplicity, Crafts, Arts And Crafts, Human Happiness

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Journey, Self, Soul, Deep Soul, Authentic Self

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

- Marcel Proust

topic: Artist, World, Failing, Desertion, Arts And Crafts

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

- Christina Milian

topic: Art, Fun, Ceramics, Arts And Crafts

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

- Nita Leland

topic: Art, Memories, Book, Arts And Crafts, Workshops

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

- William Morris

source: William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.17, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Want, Art Education, Arts And Crafts

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

- William Morris

source: William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

topic: Simple, Simplicity, Foundation, Refinement, Arts And Crafts

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Art, World, Crafts, Desertion, Good Housekeeping

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

topic: Mother, Art, School, Arts And Crafts, Attending

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

- Patch Adams

topic: Art, Health, Healing, Acupuncture, Arts And Crafts

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

- Tabatha Coffey

source: "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

topic: Running, Art, Dad, Hairdresser, Arts And Crafts

An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.

- Duane Elgin

topic: Art, Expression, Hands, Understated, Arts And Crafts

And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Art, Simple, Love Is, Deep Within, Arts And Crafts

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.

- Lisa Loeb

topic: Mother, Daughter, Art, Arts And Crafts, Birthday Party

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

- Patch Adams

topic: Art, Cancer, Medicine, Acupuncture, Arts And Crafts