Quote by William Morris
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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

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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

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Protest
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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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Art
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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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Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. – Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. – Albrecht Durer

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Personality is everything in art and poetry. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

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