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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the ...
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to ...
Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of h ...
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of th ...
Made by hand, the craft object bears the fingerprints, real or metaphorical, of the person who fashioned it. These fingerprints ar ...
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all t ...
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is ...
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