The great feature of our medieval chamber is the furniture ; this, in a rich apartment, would be covered with paintings, both ornaments and subjects;… - William Burges

Use a good strong thick bold line so that we may get into the habit of leaving out those prettinesses which only cost money and spoil our design.

I have been brought up in the 13th century belief, and in that belief I intend to die.

Great praise must also be given to the Society of Arts for beginning the movement and carrying it on to the present time; and although the sphere of its action must necessarily be infinitely smaller than that of the Government Schools, yet we should always remember that the initiative of our great English exhibitions of industry came from the Society, and that it is to those exhibitions that we owe the stirring among the dry bones of industrial art which is now taking place.