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A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful. -- Octavio Paz
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -- Leo Tolstoy
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind. -- Francis Bacon
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? -- Rumi
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. -- Nathalie Sarraute
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing. -- Gautama Buddha
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue. -- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? -- Thomas Hobbes
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. -- Oscar Wilde
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief. -- Pat Conroy
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization. -- Amelia B. Edwards
Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand. -- Edward Bernays
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production. -- Mao Zedong
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. -- Lewis Mumford
I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. -- Anna Sui

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