• Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

    Caspar David Friedrich: Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.
    Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).