Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement..

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

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created..

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

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

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life..

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time ….

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere..

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

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

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning..

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we….

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

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

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung..

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habi….

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

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers..

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 know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me….

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?.