8 William Blake Quotes on Culture

William Blake quotes on culture

8. Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

10. 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.

12. When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree.

30. 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!

32. True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.

35. They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

114. What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

144. Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!