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Wigs v wallpaper: who said it, Andy Warhol or William Morris? – quiz

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They were separated by a century, but the pop-art pioneer and the crafts-loving traditionalist had surprisingly similar views on the value of art and the ugliness of greed. Can you tell one from the other?

Jeremy Deller: my summer in Andy Warhol's Factory
  1. 1.“My country is really the Beautiful, but it would be more beautiful if everyone had enough money to live.”
  2. 2.“I have never been in any rich man’s house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made outside of it of nine-tenths of all that it held.”
  3. 3.“I believe in work.”
  4. 4.“Make it mechanical with a vengeance.”
  5. 5.“Whenever people in civilisations get degenerate and materialistic they always point to their outward beauty and riches.”
  6. 6.“I had thought that civilisation meant the attainment of peace and order and freedom of goodwill between man and man not more stuffed chairs and more cushions.”William Morris Andy Warhol floral designs
  7. 7.“I don’t think art should be for a select few – I think it should be for the mass of people.”
  8. 8.“Machines – I myself have boundless faith in their capacity.”
  9. 9.“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art anybody could ever want to own.”
  10. 10.“Sociological critics are waste-makers.”
  11. 11.“I think it’s desirable that the artist and what is technically called the designer should practically be one.”
  12. 12.“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”
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