"[Nature] only give it you, when you carefully consider its majesty and greatness. Does it not present beautiful scene…"

"Fortunately however, is that [painting] school where Mother Nature is placed in the foreground, and where only she is…"

"Shall I now ask these palette-slaves what poetry means, and in how many forms it appears to us? They want to chain he…"

"In my opinion the aim of the painter is similar with that of the poet, insofar that both want to affect the feelings …"

"..on the banks of a very picturesque mountain stream that pours out its crystalline water in four or five waterfalls …"

"I really believe that the general, happy mood of the people here [in Elberfeld, Germany] is largely caused by nature.…"

"Beforehand I don't make any drawing of the object or objects which I want to paint on the canvas or panel.. ..but I s…"

"Immediately and definitively [after starting a painting] I determine the effect of sunlight, day and shadow, without …"

"The free artist must also have the spunk to tear himself away from his first ideas, for experience teaches us that th…"

"The pursuit of perfection in art must always be a noble duty to the artist, but.. .Here [at the Drachenfels ] he feel…"