"An artist is he for whom the goal……" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life… - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind"

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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96 Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel has 96 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when…
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large…
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,…
Good drama must be drastic.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and…
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and…
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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