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.
EDVARD MUNCHWhat is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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.
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