An English artist and poet.. English textile designer artist writer and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood English Arts and Crafts Movement
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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world? Go to Quote / Comment
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. Go to Quote / Comment
Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide. Go to Quote / Comment
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment