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

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

William Morris

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

William Morris

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

William Morris

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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.

William Morris

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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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What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'

William Morris

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Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

William Morris

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

William Morris

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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

William Morris

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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

William Morris

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

William Morris

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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

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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

William Morris

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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

William Morris

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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

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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

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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

William Morris

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

William Morris

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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William Morris

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

William Morris

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