Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
William Blake
William Blake
William Blake.
BornNovember 28, 1757
London, England
DiedAugust 12, 1827
London, England
British author and artist. Created an illustration technique called illuminated printing. Best known for his Biblical illustrations and for the collection of poems "Poetic Sketches" (1788).

The repository contains five quotes from William Blake.

ImaginationScience and Technology

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Art and MusicImagination

The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveled to heaven is no artist.

AmbitionMotivation

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Religion

Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.