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Work that is a burden and a slavery cannot produce art, only bare utility or sham
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- William Morris English designer, writer and socialist (1834 to 1896)
At the risk of being accused of sentimentality, I will say that since this is so, since the work which produces the things that should be matters of art is but a burden and a slavery, I exult in this at least, that it cannot produce art; that all it can do lies between stark utilitarianism and idiotic sham.
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↗Signs of Change: Seven Lectures (1888; 1896 edition)gutenberg.org
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