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William Morris Inspirational Quotes (75)

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.
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There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper or you may cover them with mosaic or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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