“Everything in Nature is significant and great and beautiful and noble, but more, or less, significant and paintable and suitable and eloquent in a picture. The task of the true artist must be to portray that which is most beautiful, most elevated, and most moving. At the same time, this does not necessarily have to mean towering mountains and endless abysses.”
– Friedrich in Observations on Viewing a Collection of Paintings Largely by Living or Recently Deceased Artists