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William Morris
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William Morris

“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: Art Under Plutocracy (1883)
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William Morris

“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

Source/Notes: Signs of Change (1888)
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William Morris

“Give me love and work - these two only.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Forbes, Volume 116, Forbes Incorporated, 1975, p. 88
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William Morris

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

- William Morris

Source/Notes: "The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880)
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William Morris

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

- William Morris

Source/Notes: The Art of the People, 1879. As quoted in: "William Morris on Art and Socialism", Courier Dover Publications, 1999, p. 22 - ISBN: 9780486409047
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William Morris

“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: The Decorative Arts (1877)
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William Morris

“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

Source/Notes: Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball - A Dream of John Ball (1886)
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William Morris

“If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: Speech, London (10 March 1880)
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William Morris

“No man is good enough to be another's master.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: The Letters of William Morris to His Family and Friends, Longmans, Green and Company, 1950, p. 177
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William Morris

“Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: The life and death of Jason: A poem, William Morris, Roberts brothers, 1871, p. 360
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William Morris

“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

Source/Notes: Art Under Plutocracy (1883).
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William Morris

“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

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William Morris

“The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?”

- William Morris

Source/Notes: Morris: News from Nowhere (1995 edition), Cambridge University Press - ISBN: 9780521422338
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William Morris

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

- William Morris

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