William Morris Quotes

Form follows beauty.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

My initial attraction was just the beauty. The colors were so beautiful, the spheres were so nearly perfect.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.