100 Inspirational Quotes By William Blake That Will Motivate You To Go For Your Goals
William Blake was a renowned poet and print-maker from Britain. The London-born artist produced some of the greatest engravings of all time such as the Illustrations of the Book of Job. Here we bring to you interesting pieces of tidbits from the life of this famous artist. Blake recognized his calling since an early age and his parents were supportive of him. They sent Blake to Henry Pars’s Drawing School in London for formal training when William was only ten.
After drawing school, Blake apprenticed with James Basire, who taught him the ropes of engraving.
When he started out as a professional engraver, Blake would engrave copies of other artists work but eventually he progressed to developing his own designs.
While he spent most of his life in obscurity, Blake's engravings are now considered as prized possessions and are valued in millions. Not many know but Blake was also a mystic who experienced visions on several occasions. He once envisioned God “put his head to the window” and in another of his visions he saw his deceased brother’s “released spirit ascend heavenward through the matter-of-fact ceiling, ‘clapping its hands for joy.’”
In the segment below we bring to you inspirational quotes by the famous artist and poet William Blake.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
