All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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