Art is the tree of life

Quote byWilliam Blake · 1757–1827

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Laocoön.

English (original)

Art is the tree of life. SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH ART is the Tree of LIFEGOD is JESUS

— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!