If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.