William Morris
William Morris
William Morriswas an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 March 1834
vulnerable
We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.
epic weaving shut-up
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
romance design age
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
loneliness heart hands
Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
winter past sky
Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
trustees
We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
jewels jewelry jewellery
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
weed rain men
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
fighting men names
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.
drawing differences glasses
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?
strength light add
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!
canvas wells draws
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.
doubters painting conviction
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.