“It's a beautiful instrument, the tool, especially the hand-tool. We pick it up and it's so perfect, it's so ideal, it's so utilitarian, so aesthetic, that we turn it, we look at it. If it has been around quite some time, it takes on a certain patina, which is really very beautiful. And it's like an extension of the hand. I always think of the tool as an extension of the hand.” —Jacob Lawrence