174 Quotes by William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

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

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.

Give me love and work - these two only.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

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.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

No man is good enough to be another's master.