“It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.”

— Robert Silverberg

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Short fiction, Nightwings (1968)

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Robert Silverberg 88

American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984) American paleontologist

Cited in: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250

“I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.”

Primo Levi book The Wrench

The Wrench (1978)

“My craft and my skill is living.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

"A Loyalty Oath for Scholars," The American Scholar (Summer 1951)
Context: A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

“I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. I was in the workshop and watched him. So as a child so-called art was not my view. That was, in my opinion, my father's job. But I liked to watch him; he comes, as my mother also, from a very craftsman's background. My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theater and all such nonsense, you know. On my mother's side there was much more heavy craft. They were blacksmiths. They made a specialty horse shoes and nails for them... So, as a child, my main fun was to watch others working. I loved to walk to the neighboring carpenter's place and up to the neighboring shoemaker in my home town.”

Josef Albers (1888–1976) German-American artist and educator

Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)

“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”

Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism

Jongkind's quote in an early letter (1840's), to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits; as cited by nl:Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 69