Quote

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.

William Morris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Imagination
Part
Childlike
Everything
Produces
Children
Passed
Time
Slow
Seemed
Works
Produce

More quotes by William Morris

Image
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
William Morris
Image
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.
William Morris
Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
William Morris
Image
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
William Morris
Image
From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
William Morris
Image
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
William Morris
Image
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
William Morris
Image
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William Morris
Image
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
William Morris
Image
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
William Morris
Image
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
William Morris
Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
William Morris
Image
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
Image
Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
William Morris
Image
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
William Morris
Image
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.
William Morris
Image
I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
William Morris
Image
My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
William Morris
Image
Artists cannot help themselves they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
William Morris
Image
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.
William Morris