Quotes about Artistry

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.

He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.