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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.

Edvard Munch

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Believe Born Heart Man Need Open
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Childhood Feeling Hang Head Punishment
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 MUNCH

Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCH

Eyes Nature Soul Visible
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Feeling Human Interest Painting Yourself
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Breathe Love Paint Reading Suffering Woman
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Human Work
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Build Distract Kind Model Myself Painting
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCH

Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Growth Human Joy Live Sorrow
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Experience Myself Note Ordinary Poem
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCH

Heart Man Rich Steal
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
EDVARD MUNCH

Architecture Frame Intention Room
My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCH

Inspirational Talent Willing

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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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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