The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCHAny 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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