Henry Fuseli Quotes

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• Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
• Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
• Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
• Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
• Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without…
• Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
• The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
• All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free…
• Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
• Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
• Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
• Blake is damned good to steal from.
• Nature puts me out
• Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

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