English - Designer | March 24, 1834 - October 3, 1896
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.
William Morris
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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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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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
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How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
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We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
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I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
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Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
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