1. artisan - Noun
2. artisan - Adjective
One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.
One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
Source: Webster's dictionaryManner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers. Flora Thompson
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. Gabriel García Márquez
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. Remy de Gourmont
[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph. D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around. Alan Kay
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. Henry David Thoreau
Leave the spool to the artisan. Corsican Proverb