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Artist Quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

8 Artist quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

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Caspar David Friedrich’s eight reflections on the artist’s vocation echo his Romantic reverence for nature and the sublime. Though limited in number, the statements illuminate his belief in landscape as a conduit for inner feeling, offering a compact window into his poetic vision.

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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…

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The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees…

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A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

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Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

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Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings…

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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without…

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God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

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“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what…

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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

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I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

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“Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my…

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I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon…

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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have…

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The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision…

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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid…

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The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within…

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I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what…

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The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

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When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a veiled girl.…

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