“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.”
Great
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
CourageAll Quotes by William Blake
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Time“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Art“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.”
Love“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
God“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
Religion“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!”
Politics“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
Courage“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
Happiness“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Morning“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
Sad“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
Wisdom“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
Music“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.”
Art“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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.”
Art“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.”
Money“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Sympathy