Top 26 Caspar Friedrich Quotes
#1. It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
Henry Steele Commager
#4. The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich
#5. It's not natural rattling around the house on my own all day when you're not here. It's no way to live. That's all I have to say.
Fredrik Backman
#6. 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
#8. He had followed the calendar, the years, time-
Bird farted.
And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it to me in that one moment of instant corruption.
James Welch
#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. 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
#15. I may say it of our preposterous use of books,
He knew not what to do, and so he read.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.
Karen Kimsey-House
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
Bob Geldof
#22. 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
#24. The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
Sharon Salzberg
#25. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
Caspar David Friedrich
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