Distance Quote by Caspar David Friedrich

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

— George Eliot

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

— Park Chan-wook

“people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.”

— Rick Riordan

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

— Milarepa

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

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

— Michel de Montaigne

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

— Hal Borland

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

— Robert Henri

“The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only…

— Eleanor Catton

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

— John Ruskin

“…the imagination gives to everything that it touches a peculiarity, and it seems to me that the peculiarity of the imagination is nobility, of…

— Wallace Stevens

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac