The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

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.

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.