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.

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

Industry without art is brutality.

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

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

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

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.