William Morris Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

  William Morris

  Art, Exercise, Giving

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

• Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

  William Morris

  Art, People, Joy

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

  William Morris

  Art, Kings, Warrior

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

• ...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

  William Morris

  Art, Clothes, House

  William Morris, May Morris “The Collected Works of William Morris: Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry”

• 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

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

• The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

  William Morris

  Art, Hands, Fire

  William Morris (2002). “The Earthly Paradise”, p.12, Psychology Press

• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

• Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Hard Times

• If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Art, House

• If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

  William Morris

  Art, Hate, Real

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

• 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?

  William Morris

  Art, Ornaments, Restoration

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

• Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

  William Morris

  Summer, Art, Winter

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

• Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

  William Morris

  Art, People, Human Life

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.37, Courier Corporation

• The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

  William Morris

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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