E. V. Lucas Quotes

A sense of style can be sort of fun, as long as it doesn't get in the way.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.