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!

Industry without art is brutality.

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

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.

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.

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