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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
William Morris
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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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Don't think too much of style.
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Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
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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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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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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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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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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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