August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August WilhelmSchlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the foremost leader of Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 September 1767
CountryGermany
August Wilhelm von Schlegel quotes about
sunshine reflection light
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.
beautiful fashion imagination
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.
art spirit virtue
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.
art portraiture portraits
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 that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
art individual manifest
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
mind development consciousness
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech.
faith steps firsts
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.