William Morris Quotes

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

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

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

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 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.

Art is the expression of the love we have for the earth.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

Beauty creating harmony with nature brings joy to life.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

The only way useful to go forward, is to go back.

The best of mankind are of one world and the worst of mankind are of one world.

A wise man has said little and thought much.

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

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

The beauty of life lies in the details

True art is precious, because true art is an expression of the soul.

The world is full of beautiful things; you just need to open your eyes to see them.

The true value of art lies not in its price, but in the emotions it evokes.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The purpose of art is to make you think and feel.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Nature is the best designer.

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is the most beautiful way to express yourself without speaking.

A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy.

I would rather have a house full of art than a house full of things.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

One cannot appreciate the beauty of life unless one stops to take a moment and really see it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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