William Blake Quotes on Culture
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Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.
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The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More-Empire follows Art & Not Vice Versa as Englishmen suppose.
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When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree.
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
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True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.
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They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
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What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!