Quote by William Morris
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Art
Read Quote

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

Category:
Art
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Category:
Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

Category:
Art

Art is the triumph over chaos. – John Cheever

Category:
Art

I owe much to mother. She had an experts understanding, but also approached art emotionally. – David Rockefeller

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – Its like hair color. Its nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. Its not a subject. This was a very healthy attitude. – Karl Lagerfeld

Category:
Attitude

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. – Roseanne Barr

Category:
Hope

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Trees

The Birds Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of fair competition. It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. – Ai Weiwei

Category:
Courage