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

"The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress" - 1877. Morris's first public lecture, later published as "The Lesser Arts" in Hopes and Fears for Art - 1882.


Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

"The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design - 19 February 1880, later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881.


The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

"The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design - 19 February 1880, later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881


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