Logo
Quote by William Blake
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrad

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake

Other quotes by William Blake

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternitys sun rise. – William Blake

Category:
Life
Author
William Blake
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Author
William Blake
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

Category:
Art

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Art

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Art

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, Gods grandchild. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Once I understood Bachs music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. – Nina Simone

Category:
teacher

Theres nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. – Steven Curtis Chapman

Category:
Home

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

Category:
War

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies

Category:
Cats