Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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