I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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