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!

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.

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

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. . . .

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