William Blake
William Blake
William Blakewas an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic works have been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1757
When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.
He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
What has reason to do with the art of painting?
Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent
Art degraded, Imagination denied.