My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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 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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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 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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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