William Morris Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

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

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

• My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

  William Morris

  Dream, Design, Embodiment

  William Morris, Krishan Kumar (1995). “Morris: News from Nowhere”, p.16, 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”

• I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

  William Morris

  Romance, Design, Age

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.7060, Delphi Classics

• Don't think too much of style.

  William Morris

  Thinking, Design, Style

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Design, No Excuses

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: artist, writer, socialist”

• No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

  William Morris

  Design, Patterns, Interior Design

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

• Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

  William Morris

  Men, Order, Imagination

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

• A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

  William Morris

  Design, Stronger, Patterns

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.110, 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

• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Small Rooms, Broken

• 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

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