Quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

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• 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: line and transparency (1984)

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

  ― Caspar David Friedrich
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• The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

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

  Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International

  ― Caspar David Friedrich
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• 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 into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• over-satiates
• furthermore
• unfavorable
• disquieting
• creating
• artists

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