From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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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.
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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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