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William Blake Quotes about Art

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Art, Business, Creativity

'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

Art, Practice, Done

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

Spiritual, Art, Holy Spirit

Attributed to William Blake, "Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius", Book by Michael J. Gelb, 2014.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Death, Art, Science

William Blake (1968). “William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud”

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 sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Bible, Spiritual, Art

William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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 obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Respect, Art, Men

William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Art, Business, Design

William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.642, Univ of California Press

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

Art, Ignorant, Insult

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Art, Aggravation, Vices

William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

Art, Money, Views

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.776, Oxford University Press, USA

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Beauty, Art, Creative

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.364, Pearson Education

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Art, Money, Christianity

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Happiness, Art, Nature

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Life, Art, Dark

'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Sick Rose'

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 that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Inspirational, Life, 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 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.

Art, Business, Wind

William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Art, Business, Men

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.777, Oxford University Press, USA

None but blockheads copy each other.

Art, Philosophy, History

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

Art, Imagination, Denied

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.274, Univ of California Press

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

Depressing, Art, Science

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.169, Penguin

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 and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Art, Hypocrite, Politics

Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Art, Old And New, New Testament

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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 me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

Summer, Art, Animal

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Art, Artist, Died

Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)

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