Top 23 Caspar David Friedrich Quotes
#1. I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.
Gerhard Richter
#3. It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
Shimon Peres
#5. In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.
Ellen G. White
#6. The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich
#7. Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.
Caspar David Friedrich
#9. 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
#10. 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 with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.
Caspar David Friedrich
#11. The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David Friedrich
#12. 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
#13. The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
Caspar David Friedrich
#14. The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
Neil Gaiman
#15. Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Caspar David Friedrich
#16. When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation -
like a veiled girl. Generally the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see
Caspar David Friedrich
#18. 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 of it.
Caspar David Friedrich
#20. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
Caspar David Friedrich
#21. It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.
Albert Einstein
#23. 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.
Caspar David Friedrich
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