Fuseli Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Dr Caldwell stares at her dispassionately. "Now go and get a security detail," she says to Dr Selkirk. "I want this woman under military arrest. The charge will be attempted sabotage." Melanie

M.R. Carey

#3. Blake is damned good to steal from.

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

#5. 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.

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

#10. The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.

Frederick Lenz

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

#14. Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Henry Fuseli

#15. Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Henry Fuseli

#16. Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Henry Fuseli

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

Henry Fuseli

#18. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

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

Henry Fuseli

#20. Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...

Agatha Christie

#21. 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.

Henry Fuseli

#22. 'It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)

Charles Dickens

#23. 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

#24. Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.

"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman

Roberto Bolano

#25. May the Warrior grant me a smooth course and a quick victory.

George R R Martin

#26. No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

Winkie Pratney

#27. Don't cry for publishers, paper books ain't dying.

Declan Conner