We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

Industry without art is brutality.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.