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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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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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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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