“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"- 1834” — William Morris Copy Share Image
“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...” — William Morris Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — 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
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
If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be… — William Morris Copy Share Image
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded… — William Morris Copy Share Image
You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them… — 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
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