I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only fort… - Caspar David Friedrich
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only fort…
- Caspar David Friedrich
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full. - Caspar David Friedrich
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a veiled g… - Caspar David Friedrich
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a veiled g…
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling. - Caspar David Friedrich
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us. - Caspar David Friedrich
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop p… - Caspar David Friedrich
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop p…
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware … - Caspar David Friedrich
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware …
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. - Caspar David Friedrich
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge w… - Caspar David Friedrich
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge w…
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