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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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“Erst erfreuen, dann belehren.”
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Gustav Friedrich Waagen in "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" [Über die Aufgabe der Berliner Galerie] (1828); occasionally attributed to von Humboldt, who had quoted Schinkel and Waagen i…
Also quoted by: Wilhelm von Humboldt (misattributed)
“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) said by 1841 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11 (1976) by Garland Publishing, p. 94; also in The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner
“I hope I may be allowed to remark that recent inventions and improvements enabling works of art to be duplicated faithfully, easily, and safely may properly be used to give industry a direction in which beauty is as important as utility. I cannot, as many do, regret the mechanical process that turns the artist's attention increasingly towards the intellectual element in the production of a work of art; something that no machinery can replace. Anything that a machine can imitate and duplicate perfectly is no longer in the realm of art. But as a work of art can be mechanically duplicated both faithfully and with ease, and this distributed to all classes of society, if the knowledge of that work need no longer be acquired solely in museums or in those private collections to which access is difficult, then we may hope that here and there one of the seeds thus broadcast will take root and eventually bear fruit.”
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) first seen 1781 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)" (2006) by Margaret Odrowaz Sypniewska