 Schlegel’s criticism of the physicalists’ conception of nature is surely the result of a very specific aesthetic and philosophical perspective. But this particular viewpoint enabled him to reinterpret and give a new meaning to the old and criticized formula ‘art imitates nature’. Indeed, once we conceive of nature as an organic whole, constantly becoming and transforming itself, then the sentence is quite different and seems to capture not only the true essence of (Romantic) art, but also its most fundamental principle. It is in this sense that Schlegel polemically will say that “art should imitate nature” (SW: III, 306). The deficiency of the formula does not lie in the idea itself, but in the meaning we give to its components. In a very precise sense, art imitates nature, because in his or her creativity, the genuine artist (i.e., the Romantic artist) also seeks to produce an organic whole and thereby embody an eternal truth. For Schlegel, it is only through art and through everything that art signifies, that man is capable of attaining that seemingly lost unity.