Quote

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

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
People
User
Maker
Users
Makers
Joy
Art
Made

More quotes by William Morris

Image
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
William Morris
Image
Give me love and work - these two only.
William Morris
Image
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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
There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
William Morris
Image
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
William Morris
Image
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.
William Morris
Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
William Morris
Image
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William Morris
Image
No man is good enough to be another's master.
William Morris
Image
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
William Morris
Image
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
William Morris
Image
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
William Morris
Image
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris
Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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
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.
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
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.
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