What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
EDVARD MUNCHIt is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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 illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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