Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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My will exceeds my talents.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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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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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I 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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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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