William Blake
“Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are Lost.”
-- William Blake
The idea that artistic virtuosity requires a lot of work and practice is a familiar insight, but I love the way that Mr. Frye puts it in explicating Blake’s idea.
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“We are all born in dependence upon an outer world, and only gradually learn to united it to our minds. Hence repetition and imitation are the beginning of art; they are what we call practice. There can be nothing effortless for the powerful imagination bursting its way out of a fallen world. Nothing sluggish or inert has any place in art, and that is why art is difficult.”
-- Northrop Frye, “Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake”
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-- William Blake
The idea that artistic virtuosity requires a lot of work and practice is a familiar insight, but I love the way that Mr. Frye puts it in explicating Blake’s idea.
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“We are all born in dependence upon an outer world, and only gradually learn to united it to our minds. Hence repetition and imitation are the beginning of art; they are what we call practice. There can be nothing effortless for the powerful imagination bursting its way out of a fallen world. Nothing sluggish or inert has any place in art, and that is why art is difficult.”
-- Northrop Frye, “Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake”
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