The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.