“I see Every thing I paint In This World, but Every body does not see alike. To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the Sun. . . . To Me This World is all One continued Vision of Fancy or Imagination.”

—William Blake, in a letter to the Reverend Dr Trusler, 1799. Found in William Blake: The Critical Heritage, edited by B.E. Bentley, Jr, 1975.