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.
EDVARD MUNCHBy 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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