Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors 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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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 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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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