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

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

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.

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

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.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.