Top 41 Quotes About Caspar
#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
#2. Well, aren't you full of shit! Also, Caspar and I will gossip about anything we please.
Elizabeth Hunter
#3. The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation's leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn.
Bill Bryson
#5. It doesn't matter where I am, or who I'm with ... God, Caspar. I've dreamed about being with you.
Rie Warren
#6. Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.
Elizabeth Hunter
#7. Ah," Caspar exclaimed when he walked into the kitchen. "The grey is a good choice. Makes you look much less demon-of-the-night."
"Please, Caspar," he implored. "A date with a live woman. Soon.
Elizabeth Hunter
#8. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, assessing a Polish crisis in 1984, said: "There's continuing ground for serious concern and the situation remains serious. The longer it remains serious, the more ground there is for serious concern.
William Zinsser
#9. Caspar," he said. "Beloved son of my friend, David. You have been my child, my friend, my confidante, my ally in this world. And I will be here long after you have left me. What are you asking of me? Do you even realise?
Elizabeth Hunter
#10. So damn pigheaded. I've studied you, not to report you, Caspar, but because I want a relationship with you.
Rie Warren
#11. Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise ... Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address ... We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
Phil Jones
#12. Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.
Johann Caspar Lavater
#14. The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David Friedrich
#15. Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Caspar Weinberger
#16. 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
#17. 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
#20. 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
#21. The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich
#23. He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
Johann Caspar Lavater
#24. Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
Caspar Weinberger
#26. I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
Caspar Weinberger
#27. 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
#28. The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
Caspar David Friedrich
#29. It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Caspar Weinberger
#31. 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
#32. He knew there were disappointments that lasted as long as life.
Henry James
#33. 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
#34. You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Johann Caspar Lavater
#35. 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
#37. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
Caspar David Friedrich
#38. We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
Caspar Weinberger
#39. We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.
Caspar Henderson
#41. 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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