卡斯帕·大卫·弗里德里希 Casper David Friedrich
1774-1840
我必须保持孤独，知道我孤独是为了充分沉思和感受自然。我必须臣服于环绕着我的东西，必须臣服于我的云彩和岩石，以便成为我自身。孤独对于我和自然的对话是不可少的。
“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature. ”
闭上你的肉眼，你就可以首次用灵魂之眼看到你的图画。
“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”
你说因为我回避社会，所以我厌世。你错了。我爱社会。但是为了不讨厌众人，我必须回避他们的陪伴。
“You 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.”
相比起面前近处的清晰之物，眼睛和幻想更会被云雾般的距离所吸引。
“The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.”
弗朗西斯科·戈雅 Francisco Goya
1746-1848
绘画行为是关于一颗心灵对另一颗它在其中找到拯救的心灵的倾诉。
“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.”
欧仁·德拉克洛瓦 Eugene Delacroix
1789-1863
用壮丽和苦行一般的美的理念喂养灵魂，自我滋养。寻找孤独。
“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul. Seek solitude.”
无论一个人画得多暴烈，都还不够。
“One never paints violently enough.”
如果你的技术还不足以在一个跳出窗户的人从第四层楼落到地面所花的时间内，捕捉到这个过程，你便永远无法创造出伟大的作品。
“If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.”
我每天到头都是一样的，对无法得到之物的无尽渴望，一个无法填满的空洞，一种想用尽一切方式有所产出的极度渴望，尽一切可能同拖拽我们的时间对抗，同遮蔽我们灵魂的分心之物对抗。
“The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.”
独自一人感受到的事情往往更强烈、更纯洁。
“The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.”
