Quotes by William Blake

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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 can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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 can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Exuberance is beauty.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.