I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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 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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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