"Art among a religious race produces relics; among……" — Henry Fuseli
"Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade."
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Henry Fuseli
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14 Quotes by Henry Fuseli
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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its…
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Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
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Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
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Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being…
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Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
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The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
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All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment -…
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Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
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Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of…
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Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
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Blake is damned good to steal from.
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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