It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
EDVARD MUNCHI should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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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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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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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