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.
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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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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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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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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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