William Blake Quotes about Business

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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.

William Blake

Art, Business, Creativity

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

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

William Blake

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

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.

William Blake

Art, Business, Wind

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