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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.
William Morris
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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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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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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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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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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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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 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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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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