Hopes and Fears for Art Quotes

“In these times of plenteous knowledge and meagre performance, if we do not study the ancient work directly and learn to understand it, we shall find ourselves influenced by the feeble work all round us, and shall be copying the better work through the copyists and without understanding it, which will by no means bring about intelligent art. Let us therefore study it wisely, be taught by it, kindled by it; all the while determining not to imitate or repeat it; to have either no art at all, or an art which we have made our own.”
― William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art

“I have never been in any rich man's house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made outside of it of nine-tenths of all that it held.”
― William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art