Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCHThe 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Painting 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.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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