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Henry Fuseli quotes: Blake is damned good to steal from.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Henry Fuseli quotes: Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

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

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

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Henry Fuseli quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Henry Fuseli quotes: Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

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

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

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

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

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

Henry Fuseli quotes: Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

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