August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ”

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel