William Blake Quotes, Painting Quotes

What has reasoning to do with painting?

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One thought fills immensity.

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

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Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

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Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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