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

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.

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

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

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. . . .