William Blake Quotes About Art

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  • Where there is money there is no art.

  • None but blockheads copy each other.

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

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education
  • I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

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

    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  • 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.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press
  • The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.777, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.364, Pearson Education
  • I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

    'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)
  • Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education
  • The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.767, Univ of California Press
  • Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.776, Oxford University Press, USA
  • When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

    Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)
  • Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.478, Oxford University Press, USA
  • 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.

    Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)
  • Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education
  • Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.908, Pearson Education
  • Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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

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

    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge
  • Art degraded, Imagination denied.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.274, Univ of California Press
  • The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

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

    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

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

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge
  • First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

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

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