Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.


Earliest attribution found in: The Spectator, Volume 184 (F.C. Westley, 1950), p. 610. A variant (in German) also attributed to Schopenhauer was found in Sei gegrüsst deutsche Stadt (W. Kramer, 1941) by Fried Lübbecke: "Vor ein Kunstwerk sollst du hintreten wie vor einen Fürsten und warten, bis es zu dir redet"


Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.

Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.

Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.

Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.