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

    Art   Men   Like Love  
    1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.3 (published 1831).
  • Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

    1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).
  • When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

    Real   Sacrifice   Fancy  
  • Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

    Art   Practice   Life Is  
    Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63
  • Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111
  • Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

    1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).
  • 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.

    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures”, p.77
  • Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

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

    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.140
  • 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.

    Mean   Simplicity   Greek  
    1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.148 (published 1831).
  • The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

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

    Art   Egypt   Rome  
  • Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.96
  • Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

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

    Heaven   Genius   Earth  
    Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.64
  • 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   Essence   Ideas  
    James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495
  • 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.

    James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358
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