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I quote him probably a few times a year as saying, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Farrow & Ball I t

I quote him probably a few times a year as saying, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Farrow & Ball I think have a collection based on his prints, or at least a lot of what they do is inspired by it.

DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Morris' good advice is a weaker statement of Keats' last words in the Grecian Urn, where the difference between use & beauty becomes null - & belief is left out of it altogether. Morris loved Keats and towards the end of his life designed and printed a volume of his poems in the style of incunabula: https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/845227601543118848/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/845227601543118848/...