#raf

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#craft #creativity #music #writing #art

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#craft #labor #art

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

— William Morris

#arts-crafts-movement #democracy #art

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#brain #craftsman #hands #heart #his

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules. ↗

— Raymond Salvatore Harmon

#graffiti #street-art #art

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing-craft #art

Graffiti is an impulse to get recognized ↗

— Mint&Serf

#graffiti #street-art #vandalism #art

The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself. ↗

— Daniele Varè

#needlecraft #needlework #sewing #art

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. ↗

— Burton Raffel

#artist #burton-raffel #o-henry #art