Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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