"Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.…" — Henry Fuseli
"Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity."
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Henry Fuseli
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14 Quotes by Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Nature puts me out
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our…
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— Abraham Lincoln
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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and…
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep,…
— R. Kent Hughes
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More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World…
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