William Blake Quotes, Painting Quotes

What has reasoning to do with painting?

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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

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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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Knowledge is Life with wings

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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

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As we are, so we see.

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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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

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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

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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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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

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