"The price of excellence is labor, and time……" — Henry Fuseli
"The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality."
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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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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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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 Excellence Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
— Walter Bagehot
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
— Tyra Banks
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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