The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.
How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don’t care for the landscape itself?
O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
Have nothing in your houses 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.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.