As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers.
-- William Blake. "Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (23 August 1799)",
Blake Complete Writings with variant readings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes,
London: Oxford University Press (1971)
[reprint of the Nonesuch Press edi (1957) with additions and corrections.]
p 793.
What is it sets Homer Virgil & Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is
the Bible more Entertaining & Instructive than any other book? Is it
not because they are addressed to the Imagination, which is Spiritual
Sensation, & but mediately to the Understanding or Reason? Such is
True Painting and such was alone valued by the Greeks & the best
modern Artists.
-- William Blake. "Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (23 August 1799)",
Blake Complete Writings with variant readings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes,
London: Oxford University Press (1971)
[reprint of the Nonesuch Press edi (1957) with additions and corrections.]
p 794.
Art Degraded, Imagination Denied, War Governed the Nations.
-- William
Blake. "The Laocoön", [aphorisms]
Blake Complete Writings with variant readings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes,
London: Oxford University Press (1971)
[reprint of the Nonesuch Press edi (1957) with additions and corrections.]
p 775. [
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For every Pleasure Money Is Useless
-- William
Blake. "The Laocoön", [aphorisms]
Blake Complete Writings with variant readings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes,
London: Oxford University Press (1971)
[reprint of the Nonesuch Press edi (1957) with additions and corrections.]
p 777. [
see illus]