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

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.

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.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

I am such a classic fool, aren’t I?” “No, not a fool. Just in love, ” “It’s all the same.”“No, it’s not.

Mr. Jennings is the one who trapped the fairies here to begin with. If they’re back and wandering around, if they’re loose, then, well, it’s not good.

Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!

The world needs a strong America.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.