Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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 do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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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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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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