You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

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

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

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

Speak but one word to me.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.