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

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.

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

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

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

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

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!