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 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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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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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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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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