The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

Industry without art is brutality.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.