What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or… — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible;… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
