Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
EDVARD MUNCHNo longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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 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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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.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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