Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
