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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
— William Morris
[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ...
— William Morris
We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
— William Morris
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
— William Morris
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
— William Morris
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.
— Menna Van Praag
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
— William Morris Hunt
I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few ...
— William Morris
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
— William Morris
Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee.
— William Morris
There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
— William Morris Hunt
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
— William Morris
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
— William Morris
The lost and found the Cause hath crowned, The Day of Days is here.
— William Morris
For hope is dead, for hope is dead.
— William Morris
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
— William Morris Hunt
From out the throng and stress of lies, from out the painful noise of sighs, one voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
— William Morris
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
— William Morris Hunt
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
— William Morris
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
— William Morris
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
— William Morris
As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
— William Morris
Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!
— William Morris Hunt
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
— William Morris
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.
— William Morris
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
— Johnny Weissmuller
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
— William Morris Hunt
Imagination comes in after we have experience.
— William Morris Hunt
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
— William Morris
Inspiration is nothing without work.
— William Morris Hunt
Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that
Winter's woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air. — William Morris
Might you have thought that
Winter's woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air. — William Morris
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
— William Morris
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834
— William Morris
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
— William Morris
Speak but one word to me.
— William Morris
You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!
— William Morris Hunt
I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
— Paul Oakenfold
Count on, rest not, for hope is dead.
— William Morris
No man is good enough to be another's master.
— William Morris
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
— William Morris
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
— William Morris Hunt
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
— William Morris
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
— William Morris Hunt
How do you know it is destiny? Because it is!
— William R. Morris
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
— William Morris
Talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is to such thing. It is mere a matter of craftsmanship.
— William Morris
...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.
— Ewan Clayton
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
— William Morris
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only ... One dark and one light place in every picture.
— William Morris Hunt
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
— William Morris
Give me love and work - these two only.
— William Morris
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
— William Morris
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
— William Morris Hunt
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
— William Morris
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
— William Morris
I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
— Irwin Winkler
The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
— William Morris
Don't think too much of style.
— William Morris
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
— William Morris
My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
— William Morris
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
— William Morris
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
— William Morris Hunt
Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
— William Morris