William Blake Quotes, Art Quotes, Painting Quotes

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

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Every harlot was a virgin once.

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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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You become what you behold.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

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If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

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Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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