William Blake Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

  William Blake

  Beauty, Art, Creative

  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.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

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

• 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

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

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

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

  William Blake

  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.

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• 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

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

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

• None but blockheads copy each other.

  William Blake

  Art, Philosophy, History

• 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

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

  William Blake

  Art, Practice, Done

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

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

  William Blake

  Death, Art, Science

  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.

  William Blake

  Life, Art, Dark

  '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

  Respect, Art, Men

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

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

  William Blake

  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.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

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

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

  William Blake

  Depressing, Art, 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

  Summer, Art, Animal

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

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

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Men

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

• 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

  Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

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

• 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

  Art, Hypocrite, Politics

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

• Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Humanity

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.908, Pearson Education

• Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Perfection

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.451, Penguin

• Art degraded, Imagination denied.

  William Blake

  Art, Imagination, Denied

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

• Where there is money there is no art.

  William Blake

  Art

• What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  William Blake

  Art, Painting, Reason

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