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 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.
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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.
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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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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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