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.
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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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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.
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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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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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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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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