Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh’d And all the hills echoed.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy...
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True...
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan’s gratification.
Where there is money there is no art.
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and ’twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer’s wish, And show his little eye’s anatomy.
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
What has reasoning to do with painting?
Works of Art can only be produc’d in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.