From an 1828 proposal "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" (
This quotation is occasionally attributed to Wilhelm von Humboldt, which appears to be erroneous; von Humboldt had quoted Schinkel and Waagen in a report.
“First delight, then instruct.”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin
Erst erfreuen, dann belehren.
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 in a report.
Misattributed
“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
“He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.”
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 343
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
Notes from Another Country https://books.google.com/books?id=dlGDAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT46&ots=4hYUXc8Ko7&dq=%22Notes%20from%20Another%20Country%22%20molly&pg=PT47#v=onepage&q=%22Notes%20from%20Another%20Country%22%20molly&f=false. Retrieved Dec 2, 2015.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Other remarks <br class="br">Source: Adolf Hitler as in a speech the summer before the Degenerate Art Exhibition as quoted without citation in " Degenerate art: Why Hitler hated modernism http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441" by Lucy Burns, BBC.
“For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
In regard to Adolf Hitler's Kristallnacht (November 1938); as quoted in Our German Cousins: Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1974) by John Mander, p. 219
1930s
“German: I am the first living art museum”
Genco Gulan (1969) contemporary artist
Ich bin das erste lebende kunst museum. <br class="br">Arikonmaz, Piril Gulesci (2012-02-02) 'Ben bir müzeyim’ http://www.haberturk.com/yazarlar/piril-gulesci-arikonmaz/712691-ben-bir-muzeyim Haberturk (In Turkish). Retrieved 2012-06-01.
“We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
