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.
EDVARD MUNCHDeath is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I 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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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