Relics Quotes by Henry Fuseli

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

— Henry Fuseli

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

— Henry Fuseli

Blake is damned good to steal from.

— Henry Fuseli

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

— Henry Fuseli

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and…

— Henry Fuseli

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen,…

— Henry Fuseli

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

— Henry Fuseli

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

— Henry Fuseli

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

Nature puts me out

— Henry Fuseli

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

— Henry Fuseli

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

— Henry Fuseli

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

— Henry Fuseli