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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
William Morris
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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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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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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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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.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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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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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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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.
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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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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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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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Don't think too much of style.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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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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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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