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

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

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 love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?