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.

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.

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

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.