Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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To give the community of artists a particular purpose would mean … debasing the community of saints into a state.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel