Quote by William Blake
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not se

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. 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. – William Blake

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake

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Imagination
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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. – William Blake

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Experience
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. – William Blake

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Despair
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No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. – Thomas Carlyle, “Count Cagliostro,” 1833

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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perspective

The reverse side also has a reverse side. – Japanese Proverb

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Perspective

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. – Mark Twain, about the Devil

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil