What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick
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"What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick." (Original German: "Klassisch ist das Gesunde und romantisch das Kranke") is aphorism by Goethe .
- "In fact the antipathy between Classics and Romantics (exemplified by Ingres and Delacroix, for example) was unknown before the 19th century, and it was only in the mid-19th century, at a time when the antique revival style was out of fashion, that the word ‘Neoclassicism’ was coined—originally a pejorative term with suggestions of lifelessness and impersonality. --The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Longer quote by Goethe:
- "Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde, und das Romantische das Kranke. Und da sind die Nibelungen klassisch wie der Homer, denn beide sind gesund und tüchtig. Das meiste Neuere ist nicht romantisch, weil es neu, sondern weil es schwach, kränklich und krank ist, und das Alte ist nicht klassisch, weil es alt, sondern weil es stark, frisch, froh und gesund ist. Wenn wir nach solchen Qualitäten Klassisches und Romantisches unterscheiden, so werden wir bald im reinen sein."
See also
- Neoclassicism
- "The only way for us to become great lies in the imitation of the Greeks" --Winckelmann
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