Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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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 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 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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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