William Morris Quotes

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

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

I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

Form follows beauty.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

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.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.