The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCHPainting 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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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.
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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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