Quotes
Authors
Actors
Artists
Home
Authors
Caspar David Friedrich
Quote
Famous quote by
Caspar David Friedrich
Mobile
Desktop
Like
"If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him"
- Caspar David Friedrich
Painting
About the Author
This quote is written / told by
Caspar David Friedrich
between September 5, 1774 and May 7, 1840. He/she was a famous
Artist
from
Germany
. The author also have
3 other quotes
.
Go to author profile
Similar Quotes
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"
Giotto di Bondone, Artist
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"
Klaus Kinski, Actor
"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"
Robert Indiana, Artist
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"
Peter Shaffer, Playwright
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention"
Michael Graves, Architect
"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"
John Dyer, Artist