“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.” FirstsMayLightEyeSpiritVisionDarknessSeeingEffectsPerceptionAweDarkness Within Author:Caspar David Friedrich
“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 oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.” EyeTogetherArtistSpaceVisionFiveEffectsDegreesCreatingHundredPressesCirclesLandscapeFortyAngleViewers Author:Caspar David Friedrich
