"All art is quite useless."
Essay, 1888
Read Mr. Morris on Tapestry
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"What is the use of setting an artist in a twelve-acre field and telling him to design a house?"
Read in context
"The one was not too free, the other was not a slave."
"Commercialism, with its vile god cheapness, its callous indifference to the worker, its innate vulgarity of temper, is our enemy."