Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Interpretation
Aesthetic values play a crucial role in the growth of both individuals and society.
Friedrich Schiller emphasizes the significance of aesthetic experiences in fostering a balanced and harmonious existence for both individuals and the larger community. He argues that beauty and art are not mere indulgences but essential components that contribute to our social fabric and personal development.
In practice
During a lecture on art and society, I quoted Schiller to illustrate the importance of aesthetics in cultural development.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
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