All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

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

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Speak but one word to me.