Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.