All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

In its most limited sense modern art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.

Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.