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 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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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