Henry Fuseli famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Essence #Ideas #Perfection
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Heaven #Genius #Earth
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Envy #Vampire #Emulation
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Real #Sacrifice #Fancy
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Beautiful #Ideas #Fancy
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Art #Practice #Life Is
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Perfection #Mediocrity #Pursuit
Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Landscape #Invention #Painter
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Mean #Simplicity #Greek
Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Art #Men #Competition
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Religious #Art #Military
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Character #Criticism #Envelopes
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Color #Principles #Lines
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Attitude #Children #Action
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Excellence #Immortality #Labor
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Eye #Expression #Command
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
-- Henry Fuseli

#Art #Egypt #Rome

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