And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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