Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
Friedrich SchillerMan only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich SchillerThe 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