If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.