Clouds Quote by Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

— Caspar David Friedrich

“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

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

“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

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

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

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

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

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