20 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

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