The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. — William Blake Copy Share Image
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art — William Blake Copy Share Image
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool. — William Blake Copy Share Image
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist. — William Blake Copy Share Image
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
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