His choice…to work as maker of words, maker of images, and crossbreeder of both, amounted to a decision to live in incommensurable neighbourhoods of meaning. He swam against the current of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialisation…”

Morris Eaves, The Cambridge Companion to William Blake, from a video by Jason Kottke on Blake https://kottke.org/26/07/unclassifiable-artists