A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze. On Art and Artists. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works

William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Art and Artists

A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze


XXVII NATURE 1 and Art in this together suit:
What is most grand is always most minute.
Rubens thinks tables, chairs and stools are grand,
But Raphael thinks a head, a foot, a hand.

Note 1. XXVII Title] A Pretty Epigram for those who have given high prices for bad pictures MS. 1st rdg. del. [back]