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

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.

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.

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

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. . . .