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

- 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.

- Henry Fuseli

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

- Henry Fuseli

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

- Henry Fuseli

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

- Henry Fuseli

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 mean…

- Henry Fuseli

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

- Henry Fuseli

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

- Henry Fuseli

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

- Henry Fuseli