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First thought is
best in art.
The eye altering, alters all.
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william blake
every man who is not an
artist
To see a World in a grain of sand
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything
would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,
till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern. ~
[For Blake] every act of the imagination, every union of
existence and perception, is a time-space complex ... in which time and
space as we know them disappear. ~
[Blake] held that the way to truth and higher
consciousness was through the contemplation of art. He proposed that by
immersing oneself in art, a person could experience it not just as an
aesthetic but more akin to the meditative exercise a mystic performs in
preparation for achieving a higher state of spiritual enlightenment.
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He who binds to himself a joy
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