I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHAnd I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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 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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I 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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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 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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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