Fine Art Compared With Traditional Crafts
In stark contrast to fine art practice is the traditional craft form. With traditional crafts, the method is handed down from generation to generation with often very little change in techniques. It is usually fair to say that folk crafts employ a method but not an art methodology, since that would involve rigorous questioning and criticising of the tradition.
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Thought product and food product are to me
Nothing compared to the producing of them.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Donna N. Douglass (20th century)