Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
EDVARD MUNCHA work of art comes only from inside a human being.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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.
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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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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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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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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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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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