Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCHCertainly 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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 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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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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 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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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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