"The first demand any work of art..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

“Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.”

“I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.”

“The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.”

“Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.”

“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”

“Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.”

“Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.”

“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.”