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 Copy Share Image
“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
“Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a veiled girl.… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share
