William Morris
British artist, writer
Lived from: 1834 - 1896
Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 24 march 1834 Died: 3 october 1896
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
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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.
― William Morris
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