Sunday, September 14, 2008

Blake

More thoughts on William Blake.

A man who naturally tied himself down to nothing. Developed his own mythology. Saw ghosts as an everday reality. Must make own philosophy and religion or we become enslaved by others. Believed art depicts not physical reality but spiritual reality. Creates something that will never be created again. Saw no limit to creativity. You never make what you have in mind. Free love.

We study this man of the past to learn from him? To learn how to create ourselves? A man who had no training and is more magnificent than we will ever be. This is what I want to be. Free of trying to be what everyone else is, or was, or wants.

Me.

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