Friedrich's remark to Carl Gustac Carus, as cited by Sigrid Hinz, Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen; Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellchaft, Berlin ,1968 p. 239; translated and quoted in Religious Symbolism in Caspar David Friedrich, by Colin J. Bailey https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2225&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF, paper; Oct. 1988 - Edinburgh College of Art, p. 19 <br class="br">undated
“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXV.10
Tirukkural
“The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Context: To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the Sun & and a bag worn with the use of Money has more beautiful proportions than a Vine filled with Grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers..
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Quoted in: Eric Shanes (2012) The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner, p. 23
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Gregory Scott Paul (1954) U.S. researcher, author, paleontologist, and illustrator
Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 338
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
The Tower http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1700/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance
“Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Context: Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
