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William Morris


English
March 24, 1834
Designer
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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.


William Morris Hunt
Tags: Nature Her Art
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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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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.


William Morris
Tags: You Love Real
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Morris
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
William Morris Hunt
Tags: Me Make Without
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
William Morris Hunt
Tags: Than Man His
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
William Morris Hunt
Tags: You More Always
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
William Morris Hunt
Tags: Time Work Respect
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
Tags: Men About Out
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.
William Morris Hunt