The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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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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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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