the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.
The President urged Congress to promote:
I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.
Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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.
Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.
I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.
My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how I got into it. My dad, who was a head-hunter, was also an incredible artist, and when he was very young, he was a really good cartoonist.
I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.
Visva-Bharati has a glorious legacy.
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.
I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.
I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
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 enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.
In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Cultural activity is what makes us human.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
