Industry without art is brutality.

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. . . .

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

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.

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.

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.