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 MUNCHIt was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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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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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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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