In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
EDVARD MUNCHYouth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it 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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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 rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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