William Morris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
-- William Morris

#Life #Happiness #Lying
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
-- William Morris

#Life #Happiness #Beauty
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.
-- William Morris

#Memories #Exercise #Men
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
-- William Morris

#Blessed #Men #Arrogance
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

#Art #Mean #Civilization
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
-- William Morris

#Character #Expression #Order
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
-- William Morris

#Art #Kings #Warrior
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
-- William Morris

#Art #Want #Art Education
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
-- William Morris

#Beautiful #Passion #Civilization
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

#Men #Made #Should
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.
-- William Morris

#Fighting #Men #Names
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
-- William Morris

#Rewards #Life Is #Enough
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
-- William Morris

#Art #Real #Hate
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

#Reality #Past #Alive
I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.
-- William Morris

#Real #Commitment #Thinking

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