Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

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

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.

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

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 may.

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

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

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

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

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

When I’m photographing I see life.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.