Here are my discussion points in navy blue:
Marcel Durchap
Inspires me to contemplate historic manufacturing processes or tools, but after that the items are perceived as clutter and shunned.
He would have been pleased with your first comments. His timing in history is totally relevant to your comments, and others on modernisation, industrialisation, collectivism, consumerism, mass production etc. As for 'clutter and shunned', again I'm not sure what you're on about. If you're saying that the objects look out of place and inappropriate then again, the Absurdist in Duchamp would have danced for joy.
The idea that these examples are clutter, is my reaction to imagining them in my living space. For me, art must have a purpose (to inspire or create a setting) and these pieces get old very quick. I could live with a print, but not the original.
Salvador Dali
Obviously organic, his later paintings make me think of decomposing flesh. I cannot tolerate these pieces outside "history of art".
Personally I find Dali's work great to look at out of history of art. There is something meditative about looking at his work, which is hardly surprising seeing as he painted his subconcious. I will always treasure seeing some Dali as a teenager in a gallery in Berlin. My eye was just led around his majestic painting technique by these very organic styles you describe. As for 'rotting flesh', this is partly related to what the Edvard Munch entry is about - the existential horror of being human. Again, subconcious wandering are bound to come up with this darkness - but I prefer that to pretty pictures personally.
Your adoration of being led around by organic structures causes me to cringe. If the same shapes and the same paths were portrayed through natural geological structures or manufactured tools, then I could go wander his world and not feel icky about it.
Andy Goldsworthy
I especially appreciate those pieces which take advantage of the physical properties in minerals and photons, and it makes me think of life.
Yes he is a master! A real breath of fresh air! I was actually tutored by someone who was in turn tutored by Goldsworthy, so I got plenty of insights into his work. We went on many art residency courses and I did a great deal of conceptual art based on Goldsworthy's ideas of art being: > Temporary and 'biodegradable' > In tune with nature > Comparing and contraasting natural and man-made materials > Bold sense of colour. BTW - I seem to remember that Goldsworthy actually did many Duchamp style 'ready mades' himself. One I remember clearly, which influenced my work a lot, was a ladder leading up a blue wall that had a cloud painted on it. It was simply called the 'Stairway to Heaven'. Perhaps I will dig out some photos of that kind of work I did.
I am blind to the 'biodegradable' aspect described. It strikes me as being frozen in time, tranquil and unchanging - just like me! 
M.C. Esher
These drawings make me think of school where they were very common, in classrooms or on T-shirts. They inspired me to sketch similar and they are perceived more as doodles.
It's a shame Escher gets received this way by so many people, including myself. I guess he's just been overkilled? I'm sure that he was on about a great deal more than just doodling. But I've never actually scratched the surface to find out what. Anyone got anything further on his ideas and themes?
Done to death.
Bridget Riley
Reminds me of Commodore 64 and Amiga loading screens, and thus very repetitive space fillers well suited to building up anticipation of some self-respecting art.
Sure, but you've got to give the lady MASSIVE credit for her contribution to London's Swinging 60s style. She was the trailblazer and much of Britain's sense of cool, which really ignited in that period, is really down to Riley's aesthetic sense. She has been copied over and over and over to death in every walk of life. From the dresses girls wore back then to the design on the covering of the seats on public trains today. Her work found its way onto curtains, lampshades, record covers, into films, more fashion and so on. So the Commodore and Amiga connections you are finding are only the tip of the iceberg. 
As a child, remnants of her influence gave me nightmares 
Claud Monet
I wish these were photographs - I cannot see the depictions clearly. Landscapes are nice.
Are you for real? You wished they were photos? :shakehead What's the point in painting then? What's the point in Impressionism then? 
I also did a lot of photography in an Impressionist style. I did a lot of soft focus shots, with saturated colour, to capture the intensity of a moment. I might get those out and post them up too.
I want the artist to bring the landscape to me: show me how air tastes, how the earth feels between toes, &c. The landscape is an interesting one but the impression fails to deliver anything of inspiration, it is like looking through a dirty window on a rainy day.
Casper David Friedrich
The church, and ruins are dark and moody, but I like them. The ones with inactive people make me feel as though I am observing characters who are observing the landscape. This frustrates me, and makes me feel like I am wasting time... (time to go)
I got the same sense as you did, but I did find some empathy with the people in the 'Chalk Cliffs' painting. I felt like I was standing there with them and enjoying the view. The 'Chausseur in the Woods' was too far away, too distracted and oblivious to the viewer to feel as involved.
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Those are something else! Great post man! But do you have any links for us to find out more (which don't sell us CDs)? I'm sure we will see many more Romanticism painters, a region of my mind has run off thinking of some already. 
. But yes, it is excellent sculture and well worth noting that these Greek scupltures were quite contradictory to the reason, rationale, accuracy and scientific precision they claimed to be born out of. Oh no, those scupltures are examples of 'hyper reality'. Aspects are enlarged and diminshed at turns, to achieve that 'super real' look.
