Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - Artist Quotes

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What am I proud of, and what can I be proud of as an artist? Of the decision that separated and isolated me forever from everything ordinary.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To give the community of artists a particular purpose would mean … debasing the community of saints into a state.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Like the Roman senators, true artists are a nation of kings.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is someone who carries his center within himself. Whoever lacks such a center has to choose some particular leader and mediator outside of himself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel