William Morris Quotes
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed, but it has forgotten the artists, because they created.
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Beauty is not in the face; it is a light in the heart.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
You don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the weapon against intolerance and ignorance.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
The purpose of art is to make a world that can be inhabited.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Art is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is the most perfect expression of individuality.
Art is the lie that tells the truth.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul.
Art is the queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art is an effort to create beside the real world a more humane world.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message.
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take risks.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.