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 Copy Share Image
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed… — 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 Image
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 Image
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
