“The Last Judgment is an Overwhelming of Bad Art & Science.  Mental Things are alone Real; what is call’d Corporeal, Nobody Knows of its Dwelling Place:  it is in Fallacy, & its Existence an Imposture.  Where is the Existence Out of Mind or Thought?  Where is it but in the Mind of a Fool?  Some People flatter themselves that there will be No Last Judgment & that Bad Art will be adopted & mixed with Good Art, That Error or Experiment will make a Part of Truth, & they Boast that it is its Foundation; these People flatter themselves: I will not flatter them.  Error is Created.  Truth is Eternal.  Error, or Creation, will be Burned up, & then, & not till Then, Truth or Eternity will appear.  It is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it.  I assert for My Self that I do not behold the outward Creation & that to me it is hindrance & not Action;  it is as the Dirt upon my feet, No part of Me.  “What,” it will be Question’d, “When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?” O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.”  I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning Sight.  I look thro’ it & not with it”.

- William Blake, talking about his painting, “A Vision of the Last Judgement”.