Henry Fuseli quotes
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“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 FuseliSource : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495
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“Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.64
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“Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.140
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“When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.”
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“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 FuseliSource : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358
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“Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63
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“Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111
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“Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).
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“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 FuseliSource : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.148 (published 1831).
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“Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.3 (published 1831).
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“Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).
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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 pomp.”
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“Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.”
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“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 FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures”, p.77
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“The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.”
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“Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.”
-- Henry FuseliSource : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.96
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“Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.”
-- Henry Fuseli
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