My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Don't think too much of style.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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