Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid. William Morris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. William Morris Read Quote
To do nothing but grumble and not to act – that is throwing away one’s life. William Morris Read Quote
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. William Morris 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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. William Morris Read Quote