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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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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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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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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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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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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper or you may cover them with mosaic or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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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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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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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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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