All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHMy will exceeds my talents.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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When 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.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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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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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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