Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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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 believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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