Friedrich Schiller - Art Quotes

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed,
Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Accursed, who striveth after noble ends,
And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!
To the fool-king belongs the world.

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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.

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The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

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Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

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Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

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So the Astronomer's art lays out the chart of the heavens Better his way to steer through inaccessible space...

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If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

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