Handmade Quotes

• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.

  

  Barbara Hammer
  • Desire
  • Colors
  • Pencil

• The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic schedule, and, let's face it, seeing the artistry, the embroidery, and handmade magnificence that goes into every dress.

  

  Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
  • Fashion
  • Artistry
  • Manic

• I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Beauty
  • Mistakes
  • I Love

• The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Design
  • Cutting
  • Mediocre