All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
The pride of the artisan in his art and in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
