20 Quotes by Henry Fuseli

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.