Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Henry Fuseli More Quotes by Henry Fuseli More Quotes From 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. Henry Fuseli nature essence ideas Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. Henry Fuseli command eye expression 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 philosophy ideas Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. Henry Fuseli emulation vampire envy Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man. Henry Fuseli like-love men art 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 action attitude children Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. Henry Fuseli rome egypt art Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius. Henry Fuseli genius earth heaven When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. Henry Fuseli fancy sacrifice real The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality. Henry Fuseli immortality excellence labor Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. Henry Fuseli military religious art 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 simplicity greek mean Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. Henry Fuseli practice life-is art Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. Henry Fuseli painter landscape invention Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. Henry Fuseli envelopes criticism character Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. Henry Fuseli lines color principles Blake is damned good to steal from. Henry Fuseli steal good blake
