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 Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
Imitation is criticism.
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.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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.
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.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.