August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August WilhelmSchlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the foremost leader of Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 September 1767
CountryGermany
August Wilhelm von Schlegel quotes about
art spirit virtue
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
art portraiture portraits
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
art individual manifest
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.