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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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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.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
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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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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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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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