Henry Fuseli Quotes

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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.

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

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Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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