Amy Sedaris Quotes

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I love arts and crafts.

I collect craft. It inspires me.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

Crafting covers so many areas and over the last few years, we have seen a real boom in the U.K. in terms of people adopting craft as a hobby.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

My mom is a sculptress.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I like arts and crafts.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Craft is part of the creative process.

I love making handmade gifts.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.