The Art versus The Craft

"My article and two shorter pieces on The Craft of Quilting for the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend. I had a good time meeting the artists and seeing how they expressed themselves with the simplest of materials. Quilters sometimes play a game where they all use the same selection of fabrics and each creates something different.

Fiction writers do something similar. You take the elements of life, frequently quite ordinary, and try to craft something unique. You structure, rearrange, edit, embroider and embellish.

I asked the quilters, "What differentiates craft from art?" They said that it is the personal vision, the individuality, the style."

Quoted from the blog of an author, Marta Acosta.