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

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

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.

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.

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