Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. - Henry Fuseli
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
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.
Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. - Henry Fuseli
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. - Henry Fuseli
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. - Henry Fuseli
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality. - Henry Fuseli
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
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
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…
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. - Henry Fuseli
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. - Henry Fuseli
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
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