The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. — William Morris Copy Share Image
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris Copy Share Image
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. — William Morris Copy Share Image
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. — William Morris Copy Share Image
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. — William Morris Copy Share Image
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have… — William Morris Copy Share
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,… — William Morris Copy Share
“Do not be deceived by the outside appearance of order in our plutocratic society. It fares with it as it does with the older… — William Morris Copy Share
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. — William Morris Copy Share
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending… — William Morris Copy Share
“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...” — William Morris Copy Share
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… — William Morris Copy Share
“October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze… — William Morris Copy Share
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris Copy Share
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris Copy Share
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite… — William Morris Copy Share
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for… — William Morris Copy Share
