All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us..

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art,….

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman..

What I have sought is to understand what has been said..

The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this….

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach t….

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words..

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry ….

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist..

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to t….

Industry without art is brutality..

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession..

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist..

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most ….

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life….

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection..

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being..