William Blake Quotes, Art Quotes, Painting Quotes

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

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How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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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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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

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When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

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

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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