When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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 do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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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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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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