From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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