Art Quote by Henry Fuseli Download Open image “When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.” — Henry Fuseli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Fancy Real Sacrifice
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image