William Blake
Quotations

"The only man that e'er I knew
Who did not make me almost spew"

 

"Why, this is not a drawing, but inspiration!"

- Constable merely replied: "I never knew it before. I meant it for drawing".

 

"The eye altering, alters all."

- The Mental Traveller

 

"I do not behold the outward creation... it is a hindrance and not action."

 

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

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

 

"Passion and expression is beauty itself."

 

"Execution is the chariot of genius."

 

"Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization. "

 

"Genius is Always Above the Age."