"When we are high and airy hundreds..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Everything we look upon is blest.”

“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.”

“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“Create and stir other people to create.”

“A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.”

“The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane”

“The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.”

“Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.”

“A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.”