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«I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.»
«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.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| About:
Body,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Memory,
Mind,
Soul,
Work
| Keywords:
As of, at work, energies, exercising, wills
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«'The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.'»
«If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.»
«Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky,Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.»
«It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.»
«There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
dry, knight, knighted, noon, red rose, riding, roads, The knight, The Knights
«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.»
«I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
at the best, bedaubed, hopeless, oppose, The Restoration
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