| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40715 |
| QUOTATION: | So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Morris (18341896), British artist, writer, printer. Art Under Plutocracy (1883). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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