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William Blake

"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."

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"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."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."

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"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."

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"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

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"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."
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"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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