A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
Caspar David FriedrichThe divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David FriedrichYou call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
Caspar David FriedrichWhat 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 oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
Caspar David Friedrich