HENRY FUSELI

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

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.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

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.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Selection is the invention of the landscape 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.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

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.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

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.

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.