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Art Quotes by William Blake
- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
- He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for…
- Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
- Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
- 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…
- It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
- First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
- Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
- The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
- Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like…
- The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art…
- 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…
- Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
- The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and…
- 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…
- Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
- Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
- Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
- I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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