I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
EDVARD MUNCHThe viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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 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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need 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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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