"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its……" — Henry Fuseli
"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."
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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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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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Nature puts me out
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More Collective Quotes
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
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