(To Archduke Rudolph, in a letter addressed to Baden on July 24, 1813.)
10. “Nothing but art, cut to form like old-fashioned hoop-skirts. I
never feel entirely well except when I am among scenes of unspoiled
nature.”
(September 24, 1826, to Breuning, while promenading with Breuning’s
family in the Schonbrunner Garden, after calling attention to the alleys
of trees “trimmed like walls, in the French manner.”)
11. “Nature knows no quiescence; and true art walks with her hand
in hand; her sister--from whom heaven forefend us!--is called
artificiality.”
(From notes in the lesson book of Archduke Rudolph, following some
remarks on the expansion of the expressive capacity of music.)