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

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

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

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

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

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

- August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

- 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…

- August Wilhelm Von Schlegel