William morris

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

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

Give me love and work - these two only.

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

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

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

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...

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,...

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

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