"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does."

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The theme of art is universal, yet William Blake manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on art often shapes our reality.

About William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

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"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

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"It is a quiet truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"It is a quiet truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

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"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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