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Source, in full Quote of Friedrich on his painting Swans in the Rushes (c. 1820), as cited in "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly (2004)
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The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
The beauty, the spirit of Germany, its sun, moon, stars, rocks, seas and rivers can never be expressed this way..
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