Human Craftsmanship Quotes

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

God made the water but men made the wine.

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.