Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone! — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Hard is this art, its praise is transitory; For mimes, posterity entwines no garlands. Therefore they must be greedy of the present… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image