"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."