William Blake Quotes

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.