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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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William M. Morris
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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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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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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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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
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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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