William Blake Artist Quotations

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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.

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.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Opposition is true friendship.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

The eye altering, alters all.