Authentic Art Quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

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Caspar David Friedrich has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
• A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
• The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
• All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without…
• The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he…
• You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I…
• I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself…
• I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin…
• What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…
• The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
• God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.
• 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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