That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

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.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.