I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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