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William Blake Quotes
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Type: Artist Quotes Category: English Artist Quotes Date of Birth: November 28, 1757 Date of Death: August 12, 1827 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: William Blake Related Authors: Tracey Emin David Hockney John Berger Joshua Reynolds Barbara Hepworth Peter Scott Peter Oliver |
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Active Evil is better than Passive Good. William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. William Blake Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd. William Blake Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. William Blake Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. William Blake Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. William Blake Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. William Blake Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. William Blake Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake Every harlot was a virgin once. William Blake Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake Exuberance is beauty. William Blake For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake 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. William Blake He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. William Blake I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. William Blake I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake If a thing loves, it is infinite. William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. William Blake Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. William Blake Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. William Blake No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake One thought fills immensity. William Blake Opposition is true friendship. William Blake 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 Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion. William Blake Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. William Blake That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. William Blake The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. William Blake The eye altering, alters all. William Blake The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake 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 The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. William Blake The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess. William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. William Blake To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. William Blake Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. William Blake Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. William Blake What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. William Blake When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Blake Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. William Blake You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough. William Blake You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake |
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