William Morris Quotes About Design
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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Don't think too much of style.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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