Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.
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 virtue. - 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 science, a virtue.
- August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. - August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is… - 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 unity, egotismat solitude. Love is…
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in … - 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 profoundly compatible; that in …
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
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. - August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
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
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
Literature is the immortality of speech. - August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Literature is the immortality of speech.
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 tha… - 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 exactly as if we denied tha…
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