Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is the daughter of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Mother, Art

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume I”, p.262, Executive Intelligence Review

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Law, Creative

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Hands

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Inspiration, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.52, Courier Corporation

• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Wall, Eye

• Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Science, Toil

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.79

• The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Design, Execution

• If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Deeds, Please

• Life is earnest, art is gay.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Gay, Life Is

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

• The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Art, Mean

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3324, 谷月社

• Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Rewards, Difficult

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sympathy, Art, Soul

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Share

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.286

• Art is the right hand of Nature.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Hands, Art Is

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.220

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Reality, Conquer

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