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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

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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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Art
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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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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I cant bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. – David Herbert Lawrence

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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday

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