Degrade first the arts if you’d mankind degrade,
Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

William Blake (1757-1827) English poet, mystic, artist
Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Discourses”, title page (c. 1798–1809)

Added on 22-Oct-12 | Last updated 22-Oct-12
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