Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.

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

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

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.