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.
EDVARD MUNCHPainting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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