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.
EDVARD MUNCHIt is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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