August Wilhelm von Schlegel Quotes

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

  

  Sadie Frost
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  • Father
  • Performance

• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Art
  • Ideas

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Art
  • Language

• Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
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• The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Nature

• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • Art

• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Art
  • Job
  • Science

• People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.

  

  Edwin Hodge
  • Nature
  • Angry
  • Deal

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward.

  

  T. Harv Eker
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• We made it clear to him (Maier) that it couldn't go on like this.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Made
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  • Go On

• A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Recovery

• That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

  

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Individual