Schlegel Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Schlegel


Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial.	1
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal.	2
Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.	3
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation.	4
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.	5
There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty.	6